Tienduizenden mensen kregen tussen 2020 en 2024 een te hoge of te lage WIA-uitkering door fouten bij het UWV. Herstel is aanstaande. Maar experts voorzien nieuwe fouten door het te complexe WIA-systeem.
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Na ‘Wie is er bang voor Sylvana’ maakte Raymi Sambo een tweede voorstelling in zijn drieluik over „sterke, zwarte, omstreden vrouwen”. ‘Wachten op Marsha’ gaat over de een groep queer activisten die de grenzen van protest verkennen. „Get fucking ready.”
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In Spanje is de noodtoestand afgekondigd vanwege uitslaande bosbranden rondom hoofdstad Madrid en in de naastgelegen provincie Ávila.
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Thanks to gen Z resellers and platforms like Depop, thrifting has lost its subcultural roots - and ballooned into a $350bn business
Vintage boutique owner Janelle Best has been rummaging in thrift shop bins since the 90s. When she started, she says, there was a stigma about it. “It was either you were a freak, or you were poor – and I was a freak.”
At first, she did it to source stage outfits while playing in psych-rock bands. Then, in 2005, she started “casually reselling” on eBay. Ten years later she was trading as Desert Stars Vintage at street markets, and by 2023 she had opened a showroom specializing in upmarket silk dresses in her Williamsburg apartment. Even just a few years ago, she says, she still put in the hours at places like Goodwill. The bins, she says, “were a field day. There were so many fucking bangers.” And then, thrifting became a social media craze, she says, “and the hell gates of high school students flooded in. Twelve people to each bin. Everyone fighting. Suddenly everyone’s a reseller, and instead of these kids intuitively knowing what’s good, they’re on their phones trying to figure out if it’s valuable.”
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