3.5 million children are growing up in poverty in the UK. It’s one of the worst rates in the industrialised world and successive governments continue to struggle to bring it into line. Struggling & without a voice, ‘Poor Kids’ shines a light on this pressing issue. Published on 24 Feb 2016 3.5 million children are…
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A Budget Plan for the People|The President’s populist budget will leave Republicans scrambling to explain why they don’t support it — Common Dreams org
(Photo: frankieleon/flickr/cc) What do you need to know about the 2016 budget plan President Obama released this week? Mostly that it benefits ordinary Americans and pays for it by taxing the rich. It’s a long wish list (150-pages) but here are a few highlights: This is a $4 trillion budget plan packed with all…
Richest 1% Percent To Have More Than Rest of Humanity Combined| Oxfam proposed to add a seven-point plan agenda to World Economic Forum meeting
Richest 1% Percent To Have More Than Rest of Humanity Combined, New Oxfam report shows the scale of global inequality is ‘simply staggering’ by Jon Queally, staff writer (Graphic: Oxfam International) In less than two years, if current trends continued unchecked, the richest 1% percent of people on the planet will own at least half…
New Year’s Resolutions: Ten Ways to Combat Upward Redistribution of Income — Huff Post article by Dean Baker
The big gainers in the last three decades (aka the 1 percent) like to pretend that their good fortune was simply the result of the natural workings of the market. This backdrop largely limits political debate in Washington. The main difference is that the conservatives want to keep all the money for themselves, while the…
Walmart Workers Worldwide Call out World’s Richest Family for ‘Shameful’ Labor Practices — Common Dreams org
‘The Waltons are at the center of the income inequality problems that are hurting the global economy and all of our families,’ says worker by Lauren McCauley, staff writer Hundreds of Walmart workers and street vendors protested outside the corporation’s headquarters in Gurgaon, India. (Photo: Masaud Akhtar/ Twitter) Calling out one of the world’s richest…
WNV Radio: A Dream Foreclosed — Waging Non Violence org
(WNV/Laura Gottesdiener) The first episode of WNV Radio, our new podcast, features an interview with WNV editor Laura Gottesdiener about her new book, A Dream Foreclosed: Black America and the Fight for a Place to Call Home, which comes out this week. Get a rundown of the latest on WNV and hear more about Laura’s…
Watch video on ‘Fashion Victims’ how rich country’s Brand name retailers are exploiting Bangladesh poor textile women workers
Dhaka, the chaotic capital of Bangladesh, is one of the poorest cities in the world, a place where labor is dirt cheap, and rules are loose. 75% of all export income comes from making clothes for rich countries. International retailers, including some of Australia’s biggest names, have flooded in over the last decade to take…
A Rise in Wealth for the Wealthy; Declines for the Lower 93% — Pew Social Trends Org’s survey report on USA
An Uneven Recovery, 2009-2011 by Richard Fryand Paul Taylor Overview During the first two years of the nation’s economic recovery, the mean net worth of households in the upper 7% of the wealth distribution rose by an estimated 28%, while the mean net worth of households in the lower 93% dropped by 4%, according to…
Video: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope (The Carter Center)
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Evangelical Church in Germany Council Chair challenges rich societies to rethink
Berlin (epd). The Chair of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), Nikolaus Schneider, has called for a change of attitude in rich societies so that disadvantaged persons can share in prosperity. He shares the view that new mission statements were needed for business, politics and individual lifestyles, Schneider said on Thursday in…
Occupy rebounds on the strength of environmental solidarity – by Peter Rugh on Waging Non Violence Org
S17 Eco-Block marching New York’s Financial District yesterday. Photo by John Duffy. On the one year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, members of America’s wealthiest 1 percent were rounded up in New York’s Financial District and led away in handcuffs. The NYPD, whose hands were full chucking demonstrators into the back of paddy wagons yesterday…
Slumdogs vs.Billionaire: Cairo’s Shanty District of Ramlet Bulak – Qantara de article on Super rich vs. paupers
Egypt’s richest man, Naguib Sawiris, has cast his eye upon the Cairo slum district of Ramlet Bulak. The police want to vacate the area and are terrorizing its inhabitants. Yet, residents refuse to give up the fight. A report by Markus Symank Night after night, the inhabitants of Ramlet Bulak are torn from their sleep…
Sen. Bernie Sanders: The American People Are Angry – Common Dreams Org Video
“The American people are angry,” Sen. Bernie Sanders said in a major Senate floor speech today. They are angry that the middle class is collapsing because of the Wall Street-caused recession, they are angry that unemployment is sky high, that 50 million people lack health insurance, and that working families can’t afford college for their…
BlogWatch: India’s rich oppose right to education bill – DW World de News
In a controversial ruling oposed by some sections of society, the Supreme Court of India has made education free and compulsory for all children aged between 6 and 14. On April 12, 2012, the Indian Supreme Court upheld the constitutional Right to Education (RTE) for all Indian citizens and made education free and compulsory for…
Greece: “Giving Birth is Not a Privilege of the Rich!” – Global Voice Online org
Birth. Photograph by Flickr user riqfy (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0). This post is part of our special coverage Europe in Crisis. Feelings of revulsion and anger were caused by news published in Eleftherotypia (Freedom of Press) [el] newspaper on December 5, 2011, which revealed some public hospitals in Greece have refused treatment to women in labour, because they…
Präses Schneider Criticizes Economy’s One-sided Conception of Humanity – EKD Germany
Schwerte (epd). The chair of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) Präses Nikolaus Schneider has called for greater social responsibility in economics. The economy provides unsatisfactory or even no answers to many questions, Schneider said on Thursday at the Villigst Protestant Study Center (Evangelisches Studienwerk) in Schwerte. The präses from the Rhineland…
Videos:Noam Chomsky on the 9/11, the US Economic Crisis, and Palestinian Statehood – Common Dreams Org
Noam Chomsky: Looking Back on 9/11 a Decade Later Noam Chomsky on the U.S. Economic Crisis: Joblessness, Excessive Military Spending and Healthcare Noam Chomsky: U.S. To Veto Palestinian Statehood Bid Despite “Overwhelming International Consensus” © 2011 Democracy Now! Source: Common Dreams Org ->>>>><<<<<-
Third World America: One Year Later – Arianna Huffington at Huffington Post
A year ago, I wrote a post announcing the publication of my book Third World America. As I explained at the time, and in the book, America was clearly not a third world country, but there were many troubling trends taking us in that direction. I wanted the book to serve as “a warning, a…
Rob Johnson: Financial institutions planning to use crisis to privatize and monopolize – The Real News Com video News
Johnson describes how financiers anticipate crises and use capital to privatize services on the municipal and state level; “A few people with a lot of money have the incentive to grind everything down and buy everything on the cheap”. Johnson likens the current American situation to Russian oligarchs who worked the political system to privatize…
Buffett: Tax Me and My Mega-Rich Friends – Common Dreams Org article
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett urged U.S. lawmakers Monday to raise taxes on wealthier Americans to cut Washington’s huge budget deficit, saying the move would not dampen investments or jobs. (Rick Wilking/Reuters) In a New York Times opinion article, the chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway proposed a tax increase on Americans who make at least…
