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…
