The super-wealthy keep getting richer and, while they are human beings, they just don’t seem to care how many people die or go hungry while billionaires party on. That’s the only conclusion you can come to after reading a new stunning report about global wealth and inequality out from Oxfam–and I delve into the report […]
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Episode 67: The Global Super-Wealthy Motto–Get Rich While Millions Die
Posted on 31 January 2018.
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The Global Working Poor
Posted on 05 June 2014.
The vastness of global poverty is almost unfathomable–but, it’s gotten a bit better, according to the good people at the International Labour Organization, which just published its 2014 World of Work Report that focuses on “Developing With Jobs”. Even more astounding is the scale of the number of people who are in what is called “vulnerable employment”, which is a fancy way of saying you just can’t make ends meet.
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The Two Billion “Floaters”
Posted on 14 June 2013.
Sometimes you can get numbed by numbers. Other times numbers make my eyes get wide. This is an example of the latter.
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Peering Into The Abyss: New *50 Million* Jobless Worldwide
Posted on 29 January 2009.
It’s often said we live in a global economy. Yet, we tend to spend most of our time thinking only about how the economic financial crisis has sent a sea of Americans to the jobless line. The global picture, however, is even more catastrophic: 50 million additional people may find themselves jobless by the […]
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