The Empathy Deficit: Why Religious Conservative Lawmakers Are Failing Their Constituents

In this episode we look at the lack of compassion and empathy in some conservative politicans and find out that Humanism is better. Then after talk

https://glasscityhumanist.show/2025/the-empathy-deficit-why-religious-conservative-lawmakers-are-failing-their-constituents/

#compassion #empathy #EquitableSociety #EvidencebasedPolicies #GenderAffirmingCare #LGBTQHistory #Medicaid #SocialSafetyNets

#ClimateChange fueled #hunger & food insecurity across #LatinAmerica & the Caribbean as extreme #weather drove up crop #prices in multiple countries. #SocialSafetyNets helped decrease #undernourishment, but poor & vulnerable populations still suffer: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/27/americas/climate-change-latin-america-un-report-int-latam/index.html #foodsecurity
Climate change is disrupting food systems across Latin America, UN report says

Violent weather exacerbated by climate change fueled hunger and food insecurity across Latin America and the Caribbean in 2023, according to a new United Nations report.

CNN

Via #Salon

"Other countries have #SocialSafetyNets. The U.S. has #women." When #sociologist #JessicaCalarco said that in an interview for #AnneHelenPetersen's #Culture Study newsletter in November of 2020, it struck a nerve in a country still staggering under the weight of #COVID.

#Society #Sociology #Family #Education

https://www.salon.com/2024/06/09/womens-work-americas-social-safety-net-is-built-on-sexist-exploitation/

Women's work: America's social safety net is built on sexist exploitation

Salon.com

#LongCOVID needs at least $81 billion over 10 years for #research, #clinicaleducation & #carecoordination, #publicawareness & #education, to train school counselors, nurses, & teachers & to strengthen #socialsafetynets.

#LongCOVIDAD24
longhauler-advocacy.org/longcovidad24

@Radical_EgoCom @davel
Yeah, like no shit.
#Germany for examply is anything but #socialist - not even the #GDR was but that's beyond the point.

#SocialSafetyNets are a way to keep #SocialPeace in lieu of #militarizing #police and using #PrisonLabour as #Neoslavery for cheap #labour.
Because happy or at least content workers are more comfortable and less likely to demand meaningful &fundamental change...

Because that's literally why the state mandates living standards:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs&t=627s

The Rules for Rulers

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As someone researching on #retirement financial security and #pension, I learned a lot from the creative data usages and estimation strategies implemented to measure the effects of #RetirementBenefits and other #SocialSafetynets for older workers in the time of Covid #2022appam