“About 750,000 public schoolchildren in NYC are poor, roughly 200,000 have disabilities, & 114,000 are homeless.” We act as though this is normal, a tragic fact that there’s nothing we can do to fix. Meanwhile, the NYC police police budget is $11 Billion. nytimes.com/2020/09/01/nyreg…

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2.7 millions followers not much interaction 🤔
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Why does everyone think citing the school budget at $34B is such a game-changing stat? It’s not 1,126,501 students @ $34B = $30,000 per student 35,783 police officers @ $11B = $307,000 per officer
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Disgraceful
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No gamble. UK study shows out of 1.6 million kids returned to school 70 got infected, i.e. 0.004%. No deaths. Kids twice as likely to die from an injury than Covid. Chill.
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Screwed up priorities and Irresponsible money management.
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We need more constables because our poor policy choices.
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The entire budget in Germany for Federal Police, Secret Service (interior and exterior affairs) is 16 billion Euros btw, so roughly USD 19 billion, for a country of 80 million ppl
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The NYC schools budget is 34 billion
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As you best said, “We need a massive realignment of investment in the direction of children.”
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We need to step up in huge ways for our growing houseless community. So many needs right now - including access to period products & menstrual health resources. Pls consider donating tampons/pads to your local homeless shelter 🙏❤️
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