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World Food Day 2022: Call to Action as 828 Million People Go Hungry

Inequality Naureen Hossain -
Click here to view original web page at www.ipsnews.net World Food Day is celebrated on October 16, 2022, with the theme Leave NO ONE behind....

Global Inequality: Don’t Look Up!

Inequality Francine Mestrum -
Click here to view original web page at www.globalsocialjustice.info Today, inequality is high on the international agenda. After the hype on poverty – Millennium Development...

The Bank of Canada is slaying inflation with high interest rates. This is class war.

Inequality Linda McQuaig -
Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca The Bank of Canada is driven by anti-inflation extremism. It’s the AR-15 method of inflation control. Now...

CRA penalized just 185 companies for misusing COVID money, while targeting 1M Canadians

Inequality Dan Darrah -
Click here to view original web page at breachmedia.ca New data reveals Canada Revenue Agency has gone after very few companies for abusing a COVID...

Canadian Corporate Profits Are Soaring While Inflation Is Eating Into Workers’ Wages

Inequality David Macdonald -
Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com Labor hardship and a fattened corporate sector underlie Canada’s pandemic recovery. Workers are suffering while corporate...

Reversing inequality: from extracting capital to prospering citizens

Inequality Stewart Lansley -
Click here to view original web page at socialeurope.eu Reviving the postwar spirit of egalitarianism is an economic and social imperative. For the last 40...

The Great Sidestep: Income inequality swells with little government action

Inequality Bruce Campbell -
Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca In response to the brutal inequality of the 1920s and the Great Depression, and under widespread...

Fight against inequalities

Inequality Francine Mestrum -
Click here to view original web page at www.meer.com Poverty, inequality and a shift towards a new eco-social contract If we want to fight inequality and...

The case for climate reparations is now irrefutable

Inequality Daniel Willis -
Click here to view original web page at www.opendemocracy.net “A brief and rapidly closing window to secure a liveable future.” That’s the sobering assessment made by...

The Undeserving Poor and the Legacy of Social Assistance

Inequality Brigitte Kitchen -
A Sad Legacy To fully understand Canada’s social assistance programs, often referred to as ‘welfare,’ and delivered by the provinces and territories in a bureaucratic...

A Wealth Tax is a Progressive Carbon Tax

Inequality D. T. Cochrane -
Click here to view original web page at www.broadbentinstitute.ca The latest Speech from the Throne states plainly that “we cannot afford to wait” for action...

Tax abuse—it’s costing the earth

Inequality Rosa Pavanelli -
Click here to view original web page at socialeurope.eu The world’s health workforce could be vaccinated in 36 hours if the pandemic of tax abuse...

The Pandora Papers Have Exposed the Corrupt System that Lets the Rich Worldwide Avoid Paying Taxes

Inequality Jacobin Interview -
Click here to view original web page at jacobinmag.com The following is an interview with Chuck Collins by Jacobin reporter Luke Savage. Last...

Erin O’Toole’s Conservatives prepare to return Canada to austerity

Inequality Jim Stanford -
Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca During the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the sacred and long-standing precepts of neoliberal macroeconomics were thrown...

6 ways to approach urban green spaces in the push for racial justice and health equity

Inequality Curated by SocialCommons.ca -
This story in the Conversation highlights the important role that access to urban green spaces can have in ensuring that the marginalized and other...

COVID-19 has shone a light on how globalization must tackle inequality

Inequality Curated by SocialCommons.ca -
This article in the Conversation barely scratches the surface of what needs to be a major geo-political project as we emerge from Covid. Stated...

Common wealth tax myths busted

Inequality Broadbent Insitute -
Click here to view original web page at www.broadbentinstitute.ca Canada’s 47 billionaires increased their wealth by $78 billion during the pandemic, and they now...

Non-profit long-term care homes have lost too many residents to COVID-19

Inequality Curated by SocialCommons.ca -
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com This recent study from the Conversation highlights that deaths were nearly three times higher in for-profit...
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