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Inequality is not inevitable, it's a policy choice, says Oxfam - In the US , you have stories of poultry workers wearing diapers to work. Athia: What is the aim of launching this report in Davos [at the World Economic Forum]?. Max: The main reason for launching this report around Davos is not because we think that the problems of the inequality crisis would be solved ...

The Choice Facing a Declining United States -  America's global influence is certain to decline relatively in the years ahead; it is ... As that happens, the U.S. should be more deliberate about the policy ... Its health-care inequality is a byword in failure, infant mortality barely better ...

Your new iPhone's features include oppression, inequality and tax avoidance - Whatever marvels have been shoved into the new iPhones, the devices serve to increase the gulf between the super-rich and the rest of us, deny countries of rightful tax revenues, and oppress Chinese workers even while depriving Americans of high-paying jobs. Arrogant towards critics and governments, glutted with cash and yet plainly out of ideas, Apple is elegant shorthand for a redundant economic system. One of those attempted suicides, a 17 year old called Tian Yu, flung herself from the fourth floor of a factory dormitory and ended up paralysed from the waist down. Speaking later to academic researchers, she described her working conditions in remarkable testimony that I then covered for the Guardian. She was essentially a human battery hen, working over 12 hours a day, six days a week, swapped between day and night shifts and kept in an eight-person dorm room. When the historians of globalisati

For example, “in 2018, the infant mortality rate was less than 0.1 percent in the wealthiest countries of Europe, North America, and Asia, but nearly 10 ... View article...

As the head of UNAids, Winnie Byanyima, put it recently: “ Inequalities are a policy choice. They are choices our governments make.” Activists with T- ... View article...

America is on fire, and Joe Biden faces a choice. ... class in the persistence of structural inequality, his choice doesn't automatically have to be black. View article...

Progressive Contract with America Aims to 'Rewrite the Rules' in Favor of 99%  - DeBlasio's agenda mirrors new report from Joseph Stiglitz, which reads in part: ' Inequality has been a choice, and it is within our power to reverse it.'.

Black women saved American democracy in the 2018 midterm elections, ... A powerful plutocracy and growing inequality led to the fall of the Roman ... View article...