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The Creeping Pervasiveness of Precarious Employment Is No Accident

Inequality Mitchell Thompson -
Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com A Review of Gigs, Hustles, & Temps by Jason Foster (Lorimer, 2023). In Gigs, Hustles, & Temps,...

140+ Experts to Rich Nations: Redirect Trillions in Public Money to Curb Climate, Inequality Crises

Inequality Kenny Stancil -
Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org More than 140 economists and policy experts on Monday published an open letter calling on the...

A Steady State Sustains All Boats

Inequality Greg Mikkelson -
Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org An important recent article on resource use and its environmental impacts starts from the premise that...

Cruel health care cut targets the most vulnerable

Inequality SPON Social Policy in Ontario -
Click here to view original web page at spon.ca Note: the following is an editorial which appeared in TheStar.com on March 31, 2023. To have...

The Problems With AI are the Problems With Capitalism

Inequality Nathan J. Robinson -
Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com Lately, I have been experimenting with artificial intelligence image-generating programs. Their power is astonishing. They’re not...

The new Ontario budget meant little for those struggling to survive on social assistance

Inequality Kat Eschner -
Click here to view original web page at www.tvo.org In Thursday’s budget, Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government earmarked funding for annual inflation adjustments to the core...

Who got help, who lost out with the Canada Emergency Response Benefit

Inequality Andrea Burke -
Click here to view original web page at policyoptions.irpp.org The federal government launched the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) on April 6, 2020, as part...

Poverty amid plenty: A world fragmented by inequality

Inequality Liz Theoharis -
Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org A few weeks ago, the world’s power brokers — politicians, CEOs, millionaires, billionaires — met in...

How workers are being sacrificed both intentionally and needlessly to a doctrine keeping unemployment high

Inequality Jim Stanford -
Click here to view original web page at www.thestar.com The economy risks serious recession from an interest shock that was neither necessary, nor effective in...

How equity, diversity and inclusion policies are becoming a tool for capitalism

Inequality Aryan Karimi -
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com In capitalistic economies like those in the West, wealth and status accumulation often drive our every...

The UK is in a crisis of living standards, not public finances

Inequality Alfie Stirling and Dominic Caddick -
Click here to view original web page at neweconomics.org ...

Austerity: A Raging Storm for the Developing World that We Can Avoid

Inequality Matti Kohonen and Isabel Ortiz -
Click here to view original web page at www.ipsnews.net Finance ministers of the G20 and the world met in Washington, October 10-16, to discuss how...

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...
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