Tootfinder

Avoid #Krogers until they agree to pay their workers.
#UnionStrong
https://masto.nyc/@GetMisch/1146944853

"Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott (D), who was first elected in 2020, has brought the city’s homicide rate down by treating violent crime as a public health crisis. That means treating violent crime as a symptom of multiple factors, including #racism poverty, and past violence. Addressing violent crime as a public health issue involves going beyond arresting people after violence is committed and…

The secret to Baltimore's extraordinary year
This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.

Does the Expansion of Medicaid Lead to Income Adjustment -- Evidence from SIPP
Mingjian Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12976 https://a…

Does the Expansion of Medicaid Lead to Income Adjustment -- Evidence from SIPP
This study examines whether Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) led to strategic income reductions to qualify for coverage. Using monthly data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (2013 to 2019) and a regression discontinuity design, this paper finds that childless households in expansion states with earnings just above the eligibility threshold reduced their lowest monthly earnings by 39 percentage points of the Federal Poverty Level (roughly 700 dollars for a…

I have my share of issues with Parkrose Permaculture, but she has a lot of things I do strongly agree with. I can't stress enough that you never dehumanize your enemies. You can respond appropriately to violence. You can defend yourself from them by any means necessary. But you do not dehumanize them. You always limit your response to the minimum necessary to defend yourself.
There are a number of former Nazi skins who became antifascists after realizing they were wrong. Those folks tend to be some of the most dedicated because they feel a debt, and some of the most knowledgeable because they were there. Coming out of these types of cults, police included, is hard and takes time. A lot of us don't have the ability to work with them. But some do.
By repeatedly humanizing your opponent, you can break some of them. The #Seattle Police Department was not defunded but saw a massive reduction in numbers because their morale was destroyed. Some people will never change. Some people are broken and feel like they need the power. But if you change one person's mind, even give them something to think about, it's a crack. If even one cop quits, that's one less trained gun pointed at you in the future.
The 18 year old marines and federalized national guard troops out there are literally kids. A lot of them came from poor communities. They are being used in a way they haven't been trained to do, doing things they (should) have been told are not legal. They joined to get out of poverty, to go to college, or to "defend the American people" (regardless of how misguided that is). Few, if any, of them joined to abuse people. They will be especially open to persuasion.
Remind those troops that they are carrying out illegal orders, that they are being called on to violate their oath to protect the constitution, that they are suppressing the free speech of the fellow Americans they swore to defend. Remind them that the people they could be illegally arresting now are just like their parents, their neighbors, their families, the friends who didn't join. Remind them that this is the first step. They will be called on to kill Americans if they let this keep going.
Remind them ICE sleeps in hotels while they sleep on the ground. Remind them that their drunk and incompetent leadership thinks of them as disposable tools. Remind them that some of these people are out protesting *for them* against cuts to the VA and other services. Remind them that the people they're defending refuse to make college free so they can recruit from poor schools. Remind them that they will always be welcome when they're ready to join the side of freedom and justice.
When you dehumanize your enemies, you unify them. When you humanize your enemies, you can divide them. There is no weapon available to us right now so powerful as compassion.
https://youtu.be/YtWOYUDMsBw

Maryland suspends 20,000 drivers licenses per year because of unpaid child support. And how many does it suspend because of bad driving?
https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/pol…

Maryland lawmakers scale back driver’s license suspensions for unpaid child support
The measure exempts Marylanders making at or 250% below the federal poverty guidelines.

Fascinating and distressing: it's not just #ClimateRisk, it's the intersection of climate risk with poverty. "Where the counties around Lake Okeechobee stood out was in a measure of risk that also accounted for social vulnerability and resilience in the face of natural disasters. "
#Insurance

Fascinating and distressing: it's not just #ClimateRisk, it's the intersection of climate risk with poverty. "Where the counties around Lake Okeechobee stood out was in a measure of risk that also accounted for social vulnerability and resilience in the face of natural disasters. "
#Insurance

Antifeminist women's summit: 'The kitchen is where the real revolution starts' (Rachael Fugardi/Southern Poverty Law Center)
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/turning-point-usa-young-women-leadership-summit-agenda/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250710/p89#a250710p89

Reducing energy poverty increases trust https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140988325003846 @…

And this is deeply disappointing from #Unite's Sharon Graham
“Given the global challenges we face it is right that defence spending is increasing."
‘If government cared about security, it would end child poverty and pursue peace’ | Morning Star

Having to go to a food bank sticks with you
– it's time politicians knew about it
Amie, a town councillor and mother-of-two, had no choice but to use a food bank.
She’ll be joining more than 700 campaigners in Westminster on 18 June calling for urgent action against the rising tide of poverty in the UK
They are calling for an essentials guarantee,
which would help ensure universal credit provides enough to cover the essentials of life -- without having to g…

Having to go to a food bank sticks with you – it’s time politicians knew about it
Anti-poverty charities are calling for the government to introduce an essentials guarantee and prevent people needing to go to a food bank.

Recent droughts are 'slow-moving global catastrophe' - UN report #environment

Recent droughts are 'slow-moving global catastrophe' - UN report
It says drought has compounded poverty, hunger, and energy insecurity worldwide.

Financial institutions reduce energy poverty, financial markets do not https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140988325003871 @…@…

Starmer regime did the right thing on winter fuel. I don't need it but mine will be taxed, as I urged last year.
However, in the scale of poverty reduction, the 2 child benefit is much higher priority.
#welfare

Sonnet 103 - CIII
Alack! what poverty my Muse brings forth,
That having such a scope to show her pride,
The argument all bare is of more worth
Than when it hath my added praise beside!
O! blame me not, if I no more can write!
Look in your glass, and there appears a face
That over-goes my blunt invention quite,
Dulling my lines, and doing me disgrace.
Were it not sinful then, striving to mend,
To mar the subject that before was well?…

What children in poverty could lose from the 'Big Beautiful Bill' (Cory Turner/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/20/nx-s1-5437851/children-poverty-republicans-big-beautiful-bill-reconciliation
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p41#a250620p41

Listen up. It’s Wendy Fucking Nather preaching what we need to hear about the security poverty line.
@… here at #BsidesSEA lighting it up at 9AM for the keynote.

😈 'Dark' personality traits thrive in societies with corruption and inequality, global study shows
#psychology #personality #evil

'Dark' personality traits thrive in societies with corruption and inequality, global study shows
A new global study shows that people in societies characterized by corruption, inequality, poverty, and violence are more likely to develop aversive, "dark" personality characteristics such as selfishness or spitefulness.

"Urban forests in Niger’s schoolyards serve climate resilience and education"
#Nigeria #Climate #ClimateChange

Urban forests in Niger’s schoolyards serve climate resilience and education
An unusual subject has found its way into the curriculum of schools in Niger: trees. As municipal authorities across the Sahel country work to adapt to extreme heat and other effects of climate change, the value of urban forestry has gained increased recognition. “This is really an opportunity to combat climate change and poverty at […]

In einem Bücherschrank einer Pension fand ich dieses Buch. Ich muss es leider stehlen. Und dann wegwerfen.
(Dem allgemeinen Erscheinen des Umfelds hat es ein Gast hier gelassen, nicht die Pension selbst hin gestellt.)

Njoki Njoroge Njehû
Principal Political Advisor – Movement Building, Pan-African Fight Inequality Alliance.
Begins with a series of Qs on personal experience of poverty/wealth.
Live in Age of Multiple Crises fed by global capitalism. No accidents: deliberate policies from IMF/WB, extraction, sacrifice of communities, over-consumption: by design peoples pushed back. It's systemic, driving inequality and climate collapse.
Those responsible have names.

Poverty Targeting with Imperfect Information
Juan C. Yamin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18188 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.18188

Poverty Targeting with Imperfect Information
A key challenge for targeted antipoverty programs in developing countries is that policymakers must rely on estimated rather than observed income, which leads to substantial targeting errors. I propose a statistical decision framework in which a benevolent planner, subject to a budget constraint and equipped only with noisy income estimates, allocates cash transfers to the poorest individuals. In this setting, the commonly used plug-in rule, which allocates transfers based on point estimates, i…

This is at the core of my depression.
For nearly all of human history, the majority of humans lived in what we today would call subsistence poverty. It was mostly unavoidable.
Sometime in the '60s we crossed over into being unequivocally able to feed everyone every year. People in the modern world only struggle to eat because of economic & political barriers designed to starve them. The world has worse famine problems right now than at any point in my lifetime.
1/x…

There's a lot of shit going on in the world: poverty, famine, wars, late stage capitalism, debugging obfuscated JavaScript code in a browser and the climate crisis.
The global community has to put an end to *all* of these!

The updated budget reiterated Trump’s pursuit of deep reductions for nearly every major federal agency,
reserving its steepest cuts for foreign aid,
medical research,
tax enforcement
and a slew of anti-poverty programs, including rental assistance.
The White House restated its plan to seek a $33 billion cut at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, for example,
and another $33 billion reduction at the Department of Health and Human Services.

Trump Officials Unveil Budget Cuts to Aid for Health, Housing and Research
The new blueprint shows that a vast array of education, health, housing and labor programs would be hit, including aid for college and cancer research.

Exiting National Anti-Poverty Campaign, Social Support, and Improved Mental Health
Zhengwen Liu, Castiel Chen Zhuang, Yibo Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20292

Exiting National Anti-Poverty Campaign, Social Support, and Improved Mental Health
We study the psychological and social impacts of exiting a national anti-poverty campaign, leveraging China's phase-out of its national poverty assistance as a natural experiment. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that exiting the national campaign improves mental wellbeing. These improvements are accompanied by stronger social and family ties -- such as greater perceived support and communication, while income and material conditions remain largely unchanged. Our findings offer …

Party Ideologies and Political Polarization-Driven Conflicts: A Study of the Global South
Shreyansh Padarha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02004 https://

Party Ideologies and Political Polarization-Driven Conflicts: A Study of the Global South
Post-World War II armed conflicts have often been viewed with higher scrutiny in order to avoid a full-scale global war. This scrutiny has led to the establishment of determinants of war such as poverty, inequalities, literacy, and many more. There is a gap that exists in probing countries in the Global South for political party fragmentation and examining ideology-driven polarization's effect on armed conflicts. This paper fills this gap by asking the question: How does political identity-indu…

Estimating Technical Loss without Power Flows: A Practical, Data-Driven Approach for Loss Estimation in Distribution Grids
Mohini Bariya, Genevieve Flaspohler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21311

Estimating Technical Loss without Power Flows: A Practical, Data-Driven Approach for Loss Estimation in Distribution Grids
Electric grids in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) across the world face an acute challenge. To support global decarbonisation efforts and raise millions from energy poverty, these grids must shoulder substantial load growth while integrating distributed renewable generation. However, decades of rapid and poorly funded infrastructure expansions have led to national grids in many LMICs that are strained and weak, composed of aging, faulty, and undersized infrastructure. A cause and sympt…

Good wishes and all power to the Labour rebels today. They won't vote to push 150,000 disabled people into poverty.
#UKPol #austerity #UKLabour

Born and raised in New Mexico,
Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury
leads with determination and compassion.
She has dedicated her career to finding solutions to water issues,
poverty, and climate change
— representing New Mexico in the Legislature and now in Congress.
She is a champion of efforts to address hunger, food, and water insecurity,
conservation and climate change,
and economic development and recovery.
Rep. Stansbury worked in c…

Sonnet 103 - CIII
Alack! what poverty my Muse brings forth,
That having such a scope to show her pride,
The argument all bare is of more worth
Than when it hath my added praise beside!
O! blame me not, if I no more can write!
Look in your glass, and there appears a face
That over-goes my blunt invention quite,
Dulling my lines, and doing me disgrace.
Were it not sinful then, striving to mend,
To mar the subject that before was well?…

In this book, Theoharis introduces us to the people leading the movement to end poverty, including:
multiracial groups of homeless people rising up from the streets and seizing empty, federally-owned homes;
mothers on welfare shutting down entire city blocks and going toe-to-toe with some of the most powerful people in the country;
farmworkers busting modern-day slave rings and winning living wages from multinational fast-food companies; and
coal miners, veterans,…

Do conditional cash transfers in childhood increase economic resilience in adulthood? Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic shock in Ecuador
Jos\'e-Ignacio Ant\'on, Ruthy Intriago, Juan Ponce
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06903

Do conditional cash transfers in childhood increase economic resilience in adulthood? Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic shock in Ecuador
The primary goal of conditional cash transfers (CCTs) is to alleviate short-term poverty while preventing the intergenerational transmission of deprivation by promoting the accumulation of human capital among children. Although a substantial body of research has evaluated the short-run impacts of CCTs, studies on their long-term effects are relatively scarce, and evidence regarding their influence on resilience to future economic shocks is limited. As human capital accumulation is expected to e…

"Africa has the highest rate of forest loss in the world—what the G20 can do about it"
#Africa #Trees #Forests #Environment

Africa has the highest rate of forest loss in the world—what the G20 can do about it
Africa needs its forests for sustainable development, poverty reduction, food security, and to make the continent more resilient to climate change. They take up 23% of the continent. At 674 million hectares in extent, these forests occupy an area the same size as the Amazon rainforest.

Beyond Leaders and Laggards: A Typology of Renewable Energy Adoption Trajectories with Evidence from Off-Grid Communities
Roni Blushtein-Livnon, Tal Svoray, Itai Ficshhendler, Havatzelet Yanel, Emir Galilee, Michael Dorman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22456

Beyond Leaders and Laggards: A Typology of Renewable Energy Adoption Trajectories with Evidence from Off-Grid Communities
Understanding the dynamics of renewable energy adoption is essential for designing strategies that accelerate its spread - an urgent priority for advancing climate goals and improving well-being, especially in off-grid regions facing energy poverty. This study introduces a time-series-based analytical framework that quantifies and classifies adoption behaviors of geographic entities within a region. A novel metric, the Adoption over Time Index (ATI), captures cumulative adoption intensity and i…