#Poverty
I am FUCKING Hungry, Sure would be nice to be able to order #food and #groceries but no one cares to help this #disabled #bipolar man living in #poverty raise the money he needs to live. You can by sharing your love via, #Venmo https://venmo.com/code?user_id=328092060c1690112927&created=1654260352 or via #Paypal https://paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=GB6CYVMK53E4Y Thank you.
Biden is violating the 14th Amendment so he can hand the GOP a win.
#Biden #GOP #Corruption #FoodStamps #Betrayal #Neoliberalism #14thAmendment #Constitution #Dems #Democrats #Poverty
"A 2% #tax on assets above £10m held by all members of the Sunday Times rich list could raise as much as £22bn, according to analysis by Tax Justice UK, the Economic Change Unit and the New Economics Foundation (NEF).
The campaigners said similar wealth taxes in Norway, Spain and Switzerland had helped to reduce #inequality and eased the #CostOfLivingCrisis for some of the poorest people in those countries."
My partner and I desperately need #MentalHealth #therapy both individually and as a couple. This is yet another delightful #feature of #poverty; we're too #poor to get the help we need to function like normal adults, and we're not stable or #functional enough to maintain the kind of #income necessary to pay for thorough, effective #psychotherapy.
The Perverse Punishments For Being Poor.
Written By Satan
#Poverty
#Phaborg
#WritingCommunity #Writing
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Facebook/Meta is doing what it does best: getting rid of their content moderators.
They recently laid off their Kenyan team consisting of 180 people. The team was being paid absolute shit, have no savings, and have been barred from re-submitting applications. They have a fundraiser that is currently only at 7% of its goal.
https://gogetfunding.com/african-content-moderators/
https://nation.africa/kenya/news/kenyan-court-says-it-can-hear-case-against-meta-on-unlawful-sacking--4206480
https://www.ft.com/content/afeb56f2-9ba5-4103-890d-91291aea4caa
Meta obviously hasn't learned from what happened in Ethiopia. In 2020–2022, an estimated 385,000–600,000 (the conservative count) died in the Tigray war. This war was largely fueled by a desire for ethnic cleansing, which was exacerbated and spread by Facebook posts. These posts containing hate speech would have been caught if Meta had an adequate content moderation team.
https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/digital-threats/ethiopia-hate-speech/
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/17/1142873282/facebook-meta-lawsuit-ethiopia-kenya-abrham-amare
With about half a million people dead and 13 million affected by the resulting famine, Facebook is currently being sued for 1.6 billion. And instead of making sure that their social media site doesn't insight violence, they're laying off moderators and pouring money into virtual worlds that no one actually wants.
If you have the money, please donate to the ex-moderator's legal fund. The more legal pressure put on Meta means a lower chance of another genocide.
https://gogetfunding.com/african-content-moderators/
Link soup ahead:
#facebook #meta #metaVerse #tormentNexus #markZuckerberg #Tigray #TigrayWar #kenya #ethiopia #genocide #ethnicCleansing #donate
#affirmativeAction #legalFunds #fundraiser #fundraising #contentModerator #contentModeration #employment #poverty
The ever increasing reliance on #foodbanks in the UK is both an index of the impact of the #Costoflivingcrisis & a measure of the callousness of a #Tory govt. that (whatever it's pious words) see #poverty as a personal failure with few external causes.
The UK's #inequality problem is not an accident or happenstance, its the direct consequence of the crisis engineered but the #Tories...
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/27/uk-food-bank-cost-of-living-crisis-getting-worse
It’s a warm three-day weekend. #Crime & #shootings will climb all over inner American cities!
Poor bastards, poverty isn’t already bad enough.
#Poverty elsewhere seems preferable.
In this episode of Sean Illing’s The Gray Area #podcast, Sean interviews sociologist Matt Desmond on #poverty, #inequality and our collective complicity therein.
Desmond likens the American #poverty debate to a quote from novelist Tommy Orange:
“These kids are jumping out of the windows of burning buildings, falling to their deaths, and we think the problem is that they are jumping.”
In other words, we focus on the jumpers and not the fire (and who started it)…
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-gray-area-with-sean-illing/id1081584611?i=1000613969881
“If we took #addiction #mentalhealth & #poverty — & everything that goes with poverty, like lack of #housing — out of the mix, we wouldn’t have many cases left,” said the recently retired Ontario Court of Justice judge..."
Hogan says what’s actually needed for public safety is affordable housing, access to more supports, & education for judges.
"...diverting ... out of the traditional criminal system, so people can get support & rehabilitation rather than #jail time."
The vast majority of people who participate in Medicaid are children, seniors, people with disablilities, or *already work.*
#Medicaid #Debt #DebtCeiling #WorkRequirements #Poverty #Healthcare
‘You wake up wondering where your next meal is coming from’: UK food bank crisis is only getting worse
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/27/uk-food-bank-cost-of-living-crisis-getting-worse?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#Poverty
#CostOfSurvivingCrisis
#Facts #Truth. #ghananews #Ghana #Education #Textbooks #School #Religion #Politics #Corruption #Christianity #ChristianityInGhana #Poverty #Tricksters #Scam #Political #GenderOrEquality #Woman, #Girls #RapeCulture #Poverty #Scamming #Development #christianity #Economy #IMF #Impoverished
#UTV #UTVNews #FocusNewsAfrica https://vocal.media/education/ghana-pulls-textbook-that-calls-christianity-in-ghana-cause-of-poverty-laziness-holds-women-back-and-tricksters-scam-money-from-the-poor
Quantifying Generational And Geographical Inequality Of Climate Change
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-35690-8 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #climatechange #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #global #heating #warming #globalwarming #metrics #demographic #costs #economic #noneconomic #humancost #publichealth #climateniche #climate #model #modeling #MAT #SSP #ssp2 #ssp2023 #poverty #povertyrates #impacts #riskassessment #communityimpact #respect #people #future #pollution #emmisions #co2 #humanhealth #humancost #humanfactors #equality #humanclimateniche #geography #geographicinequality #generationinequality #generational #generations #experience #change #climate #weather #water #publichealth #watersecurity #communityimpact #global #globalhealth
Alla and her kids are sleeping in their clothes because they can't afford heating.
From Kenya to Mexico, Texas, and beyond, 3D-printed houses are starting to go up all over the world. Besides providing a durable and aesthetically pleasing structure, one of the biggest goals of 3D-printed homes is affordability. The technology replaces part of the human labor needed for building, cutting the cost of construction and lowering the home’s final price tag.
Blog: New analysis shows wealth tax could raise +400B over 10 years
by Erika Beauchesne via Canadians for Tax Fairness
#CdnPoli #CFTF #WealthTax #Poverty #ClassWarfare #CCPA
https://www.taxfairness.ca/en/resources/news-views/blog-new-analysis-shows-wealth-tax-could-raise-400b-over-10-years
This has got to be the best thing I’ve ever encountered in #Ghana oooh thank you lord for the sights my eyes have seen. The comments are brilliant just #Read the #articles for the comments.
#Ghana #GhanaNEWS #Education #Textbooks #Funding #Religion #Christianity #Statistics #facts #TheMostImpoverishedCountriesAreTheMostReligious #Party #Indoctrination #Truth #Schools #Infrastructure #Funding #Poverty #Housing #Employment #Africa https://link.medium.com/OGWSUFMq7zb
Today in Labor History May 26, 1895: American photojournalist Dorothea Lange was born. She is best-known for her empathetic photographs of people during the Great Depression. However, she is also one of the first to document the suffering of Japanese Americans who were imprisoned during World War II.
#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #GreatDepression #poverty #ww2 #japanese #prison #ConcentrationCamp #journalism #photography #DorotheaLange
‘Government must end its addiction to hostility,’ charities say | Morning Star
#AsylumSeekers
#Poverty
#WorkBan
#HumanRights
#HomeOffice
#Sunak
#RefugeeAction
#IllegalMigrationBill
#AsylumBan
#AntiRefugeeBill
#AmnestyInternational
#BritishRedCross
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/government-must-end-its-addiction-to-hostility-charities-say
Martin Lewis has say as Ofgem cuts energy price cap and July date that bills will drop is revealed | The Independent
#CostOfGreedCrisis
#CostOfLivingCrisis
#Energy
#EnergyBills
#EnergyPriceCap
#Ofgem
#EnergyBillsSupportEnding
#EnergyBillsSupport
#EnergySecuritySecretary
#Shapps
#FossilFuels
#EnergyPriceGuarantee
#EnergyPriceGuaranteeEnding
#FuelPoverty
#Poverty
#NationalEnergyAction
#StandingCharges
#MartinLewis
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/new-energy-price-cap-ofgem-july-2023-b2344701.html
Whoa: "According to the Census Bureau, in 2020 roughly 35% of U.S. households included someone receiving Social Security benefits, 36% received Medicaid benefits and more than 13% of the total population received food stamps."
That millions of people live in #poverty in the richest nation on Earth says a lot about how dysfunctional and biased our system truly is. Reach out and give what you can: time, skill, patience, food, shelter, a listening ear. #compassion
Uganda’s anti-gay bill would see me killed if I return | The Independent
#Uganda
#AntGayBill
#Homophobia
#Homosexuality
#Gay
#AntiHomosexualityBill
#AHB23
#LGBT
#PublicHealth
#Ally
#CompaniesMasqueradingAsAllies
#BritishEmpire
#Poverty
#UniversalEqualRights
#GayRightsAreHumanRights
#HumanRights
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/uganda-anti-gay-bill-lgbt-b2342938.html
Pupils who used food banks in pandemic fared worse at GCSEs, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/may/25/pupils-food-banks-covid-worse-gcses-study-finds?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#Poverty
On this week’s #Movies vs. #Capitalism, Rivka and Frank are joined by #political commentator Jessica Burbank to discuss Bong Joon-Ho’s 2019 masterpiece Parasite.
https://www.stitcher.com/show/movies-vs--capitalism/episode/parasite-w-jessica-burbank-303594767
In the midst of increasing wealth #inequality and rising #poverty across the planet, it’s no surprise that this film — a violent parable about #classconflict — became a cultural phenomenon.
The cure for #poverty is now known, and it has a name; #EmpowermentOfWomen.
But is has obstacles, laid out here by #ChristopherHitchens 👉 https://vm.tiktok.com/ZTREpAJ6p/
#Afghanistan continues to be a lesson for the world, of what NOT to do! 🙏
The study mentioned in the article criticises previous studies for focusing on the effects of climate change on wealthy nations but then makes the same mistake.
'Average temperatures beyond (30 degrees) have been linked to increased mortality & decreased labor productivity.' - Chi Xu (Nanjing University)
I bet all those dying people will be really worried about the decrease in labour productivity.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/05/23/extreme-heat-population-danger/
A quotation from Galbraith, John Kenneth:
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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man’s greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/galbraith-john-kenneth/60876/
#quote #quotes #quotation #anxiety #enjoyment #joy #money #poverty #tension #wealth
Ready for about 24% rise in electricity prices?
The Perverse Punishments For Being Poor.
Written By Satan
#Poverty
#Phaborg
#WritingCommunity #Writing
Read. Comment. Share.
Since 2014, the poorest communities are earning less
Wage data collected by the Centre for Labour Research and Action reveal a steady decline in real wages of brick-kiln workers in the last 10 years. Brick-kiln work is a fallback occupation for some of India’s poorest groups, writes Jean Dreze.
#economy #labour #wages #labourers #poverty #inequality #LabourBureau #BJP #hindutva #india
America’s Poverty Is Built by Design
How did the U.S. become a land of economic extremes with the rich getting richer while the working poor grind it out? Deliberately.
#opinion #uspol #usa #politics #economy #business #poverty #capitalism #taxes
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/05/21/theres-a-path-out-of-poverty-00097399?
As headline Consumer Prices Index inflation rate falls to 8.7% today (although food inflation is still an eye-watering 19%, impacting the poorest the most), here's a handy guide to inflation I missed yesterday.
The drop in CPI figure masks continued high food inflation and rising core inflation.
19% food inflation means food prices have e risen nearly 20% in the last year and prices will not go down. For poorer families, this is a disaster.
The media keep talking about how inflation will drop but prices have risen and workers need an increase in pay to match the increase in bills.
#ukpolitics #economy #uk #costofliving #finance #poverty #inflation #prices
https://www.ft.com/content/7b7e6a9b-a428-49ce-8560-c2fce5d0f73f
Quantifying The Human Cost Of Global Warming
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-023-01132-6 <-- shared paper
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/22/global-heating-human-climate-niche <-- shared media article
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #climatechange #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #global #heating #warming #globalwarming #metrics #demographic #costs #economic #noneconomic #humancost #publichealth #climateniche #climate #model #modeling #MAT #SSP #ssp2 #ssp2023 #poverty #povertyrates #impacts #riskassessment #humanclimateniche
#communityimpact #respect #people #future #pollution #emmisions #co2 #humanhealth #humancost #humanfactors #equality
Kids who experience housing hardship, like eviction & frequent moving, are more likely to engage in delinquent behaviors, found Sarah Gold's analysis of the FFCWS study of 5,000 children.
What else do we know about housing stability & child well-being?
Read the new research highlight from PRB
https://www.prb.org/resources/public-housing-vouchers-open-doors-to-better-child-health-new-research-suggests/
#Housing #Eviction #ChildHealth #Children #PublicHealth #SDOH #Poverty #ChildWellbeing
Geneviève’s eye opening account of working at a foodbank. It’s “firefighting without addressing the causes of the fire, and that ultimately the answer to poverty is political.”
#poverty #foodbanks #Bylines
‘Why should anyone be hungry when there’s food that can be given away?’ The heroes feeding their neighbours
'More than 13 million Britons do not have enough to eat. Here are four people who are trying their hardest to help, from an ex-soldier in Peterborough to a community centre manager in County Derry'
The current population of Great Britain is about 67 million.
‘Why should anyone be hungry when there’s food that can be given away?’ The heroes feeding their neighbours
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/23/why-should-anyone-be-hungry-when-theres-food-that-can-be-given-away-the-heroes-feeding-their-neighbours?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#Poverty
Katharine Hayhoe:
"#ClimateChange, #pollution and #biodiversity loss have escalated to crisis levels that threaten not just flora and fauna, but humanity itself. It’s our collective #survival that’s at risk.
We need comprehensive, multipronged strategies, everything from #CleanEnergy to educating #women in low-income nations, that address climate, pollution, biodiversity—and #ealth, #poverty and other inequities—and we need them now."
#polycrisis
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/one-planet-two-crises-tackling-climate-change-and-biodiversity-in-the-fight-for-our-future/
“Providers like us are the backbone for the uninsured and low-income. … We are where they come and who they trust.”
But this vital safety net for #Texas families is on the edge of insolvency, reports Correspondent Julie Poole in the May/June issue of our magazine:
https://www.texasobserver.org/wrecking-womens-healthcare/
This story was supported by the #journalism non-profit the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
#nonprofit #healthcare #women #HumanRights #inequality #poverty #politics #news #USpol #border
Concerns over price rises for period products despite removal of tampon tax | Tax and spending | The Guardian
#Menstruation
#Periods
#Tampons
#SanitaryTowels
#TamponTax
#BrexitBenefits
#Brexit
#Cadbury
#Labour
#Sunak
#VAT
#StopTaxingPeriods
#Petition
#CostOfLivingCrisis
#CostOfSurvivingCrisis
#CostOfAPeriodCrisis
#Poverty
#PeriodPoverty
#EU
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/21/treasury-analysing-whether-removal-of-tampon-tax-has-lowered-prices
This how #colonialism works in #Canada. #Poverty and powerlessness are conditions that shape bad decisions and #corporateCapture. Coopting #IndigenousPeoples to turn against a culture based on stewarding the land and water is how it works. https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/pushing-pipeline-ownership-onto-first-nations
sometimes it hits me like a bullet train how much better quality of life is here in #scotland compared to what it is in england. reading this article about hygiene poverty made me realise how monumental the law introduced by the scottish government for free period products really is. staggering.
#hygienePoverty #equality #poverty #hygiene #qualityOfLife
https://metro.co.uk/2023/05/21/hygiene-poverty-wet-wipe-showers-and-washing-up-liquid-for-shampoo-18811015/
#LoafersLodge has done more to highlight the invisible plight of #kiwis in #poverty than anything else. The people they don't make eye contact with when they pass in the streets, that aren't in their tennis. rotary, golf club, that they don't bump into at the cafe
Meanwhile #Budget23 has bought out another group of people who don't realise not everyone lives like they do, able to drive to the nearest #ChemistWarehouse so they don't have to claim on their private health insurance
The Sunday Times Rich List is an annual reminder that wealth is gossip-worthy, but poverty is not.
The UK could have more than enough money and resources to raise everyone out of #poverty & properly invest in #education and the #NHS.
How do we achieve this utopia?
Globally, women are hardest hit by poverty. In the UK, a fifth of all working women are paid below the real living wage. Asylum seeker families are living off less than £6 a day.
The collections industry is pushing GPT-4 as a dystopian new way to make borrowers pay up, replicating the debt system’s long history of racial bias.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvjmm5/debt-collectors-want-to-use-ai-chatbots-to-hustle-people-for-money
#AIchatbots #dystopia #largelanguagemodels #machinelearning #AI #debt #poverty
Re-slaying the giants: poverty in the UK 2023 | Labour must stipulate plans to deal with inequality levels that resemble pre-welfare state levels if they wish to win power in 2024 | Dr Pam Jarvis
#Poverty #LabourManifesto #GE2024
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/home-affairs/re-slaying-the-giants-poverty-in-the-uk-2023/
Long Covid risk higher for people living in poorest areas, Royal Society of Medicine finds | The Independent
#LongCovid
#Poverty
#ONS
#Fatigue
#ConcentrationDifficulties
#MuscleAches
#ShortnessOfBreath
#SocioeconomicStatus
#PoorerHealthOutcomes
#PrematureMortality
#Sex
#Occupation
#Deprivation
#Inequality
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/long-covid-symptoms-risk-uk-b2338590.html
Why there's no #Poverty like #American poverty, which is rigged against the #Poor, and ensure the snouts of the #Rich (and often white) remain very much in the trough.
"...But the evidence is that once we have a floor under people, that’s when they can start self-actuating. I love the #Health research about what happens when states raise the minimum wage.... All these massive prosocial events."
The politics of anger and the consequences for citizens and the #ecosystems that people are part of. https://ricochet.media/en/3956/with-alberta-on-fire-jason-kenneys-rage-driven-politics-still-haunts-us
#abpoli #abLeg #wildfires #abelxn #healthcare #education #poverty #equality
His mom was strangled to death & it devastated his mental health. And then he was strangled to death.
Often, there's only 1 person we can count on who loves us. If that person dies, it can cause a years-long descent into mental illness. Many of us are one loss away.
To those saying the mentally ill should be involuntarily committed, consider that the US cant even deliver *voluntary* mental health services.
#JordanNeely #MentalHealth #Poverty #Austerity #NYC #Homelessness #murder
I’ve often complained that when the US “ended welfare as we know it” (in 1996) no one kept track of what happened to the people who were on welfare. How many lost their apartments? Became drug addicts? Went to jail? Died?
There’s no doubt in my mind all of these things happened as a consequence. But we’ll never know the numbers. People with money and power didn’t want to talk about it. They didn’t want to know.
🧵 1/x
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#poverty #inequality #WorkRequirements #FoodStamps #TANF #uspolitics #usa
Hey hi there just a reminder that with summer vacation from school coming, many kids will be missing what may be their only place to get meals. That’s why I leave snacks in Little Free Libraries around the neighborhood. Why children go hungry in a nation as wealthy as ours is a subject for another toot.
#kind #foodInsecurity #hunger #poverty #books #Bookstodon #author #writer #writing
The Ugly Truth Behind “We Buy Ugly Houses”
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A ProPublica investigation — based on court documents, #property records, company training materials and interviews with 48 former franchise owners and dozens of #homeowners — found HomeVestors franchisees that used #deception and targeted the #elderly, infirm and those so close to #poverty that they feared homelessness would be a consequence of selling.
I learned from white evangelicals over ten years ago that they know *exactly* what porn is. Florida has a bigoted government banning *books* like the Nazis did. It has zero to do with children, zero to do w/ porn, but instead building up a white Christian supremacist gov’t. America’s people need to rebel while we can for our future. Organize, be patient, create, strategize, disrupt, get up and try again. Learn from our past.
#America #climateCrisis #fascism #Florida #poverty #uspoli
"To me, a man from South Carolina, New York City doesn’t smell bad. New York smells like honesty. Homeless men and women mingling on the sidewalk with the rich and middle class is a kind of honesty often avoided where I’m from. It’s the kind of honesty that smokes out hypocrisy."
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/07/opinions/jordan-neely-death-homeless-new-york-bailey/index.html
Will Artificial Intelligence Become the New McKinsey?
As it’s currently imagined, AI technology promises to concentrate wealth and disempower workers. Is an alternative possible?
https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey
#AI #wealth #capitalism #poverty #equality #philosophy #utopia
A large - and mostly overlooked - segment of homelessness is caused by high rents, not addiction or mental illness.
Drug addiction and mental illness exists everywhere. Grinding, Dickensian poverty does not.
#rent #rents #RentSeeking #homelessness #homeless #unhoused #poverty #capitalism #MentalHealth #MentalIllness #Addiction #DrugAddiction #Austerity #Neglect #PrivateProperty
'Photo of the year'
From Janey Godley on another platform.
“There is so much wealth and so much misery at the same time, that it seems incredible that people can endure such class difference, and accept such a form of hunger while on the other hand, the millionaires throw away millions on stupidities.” – Frida Kahlo #poverty #inequality #Coronation
https://theorkneynews.scot/2023/05/06/passing-through-the-eye-of-a-needle/
“If I wasn’t boxing, I’d have stopped going to school. I’d have no future, no purpose.”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7en4d/women-muay-thai-rising-star-thailand
#muaythai #Thailand #boxing #Sports #kickboxing #poverty #Women'sSports
Pondering whether it's a neurodiverse thing or long-term childhood poverty thing that finds me consistently going through all of my shoes and cleaning and polishing and repairing them each season. Either way it makes me feel calm and well taken care of. I know when I put my feet back in my boots next fall there will be new warm insoles waiting for me inside of them.
'White Marine Murders Black Homeless Man on NY Subway. NY Police, Mayor Refuse to Act.'
https://theleftindependent.substack.com/p/white-marine-murders-black-homeless
#JordanNeely #Lynching #Racism #EricAdams #ACAB #Murder #Homeless #Poverty #NewYork #NY #NYPD
Spotted in Abbeyhill, #Edinburgh
#politicalStickers #ukpolitics #royalfamily #monarchy #coronation #poverty
#Irish #workers #pay fell 3.9% behind inflation last year, equivalent to a €2,107 pay cut or working 8.3 days for free.
Most alarmingly, extreme #wealth and extreme #poverty have both increased - for the first time in 25 years
#Oxfam said there is an urgent need for#Ireland to discuss taxing #ExtremeWealth to balance #executive pay and #workers pay.
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2023/0501/1380010-inflation-oxfam/
Lately I've seen an unattributed meme circulating that's somewhat incorrectly--or at least incompletely--worded. Still a valuable thought, but in respect for the author, I thought a full version, complete with the source, might be useful.
#SpaceX The games we play.
I don't understand how people can view this incidence as anything more than utter stupidity. The rocket had enough fuel to release CO2 equivalent to 350 long distance jet flights, the metals that didn't burn into the atmosphere fell into the ocean. #NASA & #Musk go about it like it's a game, "let's do it again, see what happens" #Media makes a joke.
Meanwhile - #Earth #ClimateChange, #nature #environment #poverty #pollution #homeless, #health
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/20/1170983959/spacex-starship-launch-elon-musk
In this excerpt from her book "We Are Not Okay" Christian Livermore writes about the shame she will forever carry for growing up poor:
"Nobel laureate Amartya Sen tells us that shame lies at the core of poverty. Anyone who grew up poor instinctively knows this to be true. She feels that shame every minute of every day, in the background if she is feeling good, in her face if she is not."
#Hypercapitalism is just to make clear that its capitalism run amok. Very obvious to anyone unless they want to distract from this fact. Maybe some hypothetical form of capitalism works. But we ain't having that.
For most of mankind's big problems a root-cause analysis ends up at the door of #Capitalism.
#ClimateChange anyone? Why don't we tackle it? Capitalism.
#Poverty, growing wealth inequality? Capitalism.
#Corruption, cronyism. Deeply rooted in our societal systems? Capitalism.
When someone is #poor, every chance could easily be their last. Opportunities to do anything but #work & barely survive are few & far between.
Does it make sense to play #lottery religiously when the odds are so low? What are the odds of escaping #poverty before becoming badly injured or enduring some other tragedy?
Desperate #people HAVE to take #risks. What choice do they have? I'm not sure it's a judgement issue, per se.
“State employees should get a higher per diem because inflation has made eating out much more expensive.”
Meanwhile school kids living in #poverty in North Dakota should go hungry because …?! 😡
I just sat in on Wealth & Poverty Class 1: “What’s Happened to Income & Wealth” by UC Berkeley Professor Reich. Already, I have learned a lot. This weekly 90 minute class is important, fascinating, riveting, and IMPORTANT. And it's offered for free.
Check it out here: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/first-class
@rbreich I just sat in on Wealth & Poverty Class 1: “What’s Happened to Income & Wealth” by UC Berkeley Professor Reich. Already, I have learned a lot. This weekly 90 minute class is important, fascinating, riveting, and IMPORTANT. And it's offered for free.
Check it out here: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/first-class?utm_source=substack
“The politicians are worried about what content is being taught or not being taught versus truly fixing the problems in #schools.”
McHam Investigative Reporting Fellow @josephinelee reveals how proposed property tax cuts and school #vouchers would strain a system already on the brink of collapse: https://www.texasobserver.org/propery-tax-public-schools-teacher-pay-wages/
(📸 #Photography by Josephine Lee)
#education #TXedu #TXlege #politics #news #USpol #PublicSchools #taxes #poverty #inequality