The catastrophic failure to shrink global inequality has given COVID-19 the perfect breeding ground: tens of millions of people are at risk of hunger, extreme poverty, sickness and death because, overwhelmingly, most countries do not spend enough on public healthcare, and they have weak social safety nets and poor labor rights. Now, this is a […]
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Episode 204: COVID and Inequality—A Love Story; Landslide Coming!
Posted on 21 October 2020.
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Episode 165: Care Workers Spotlight Global Inequality; NAFTA 2.0 Passes—Good or Bad?
Posted on 21 January 2020.
“Economic inequality is out of control. In 2019, the world’s billionaires, only 2,153 people, had more wealth than 4.6 billion people.” Those two sentences lead off Oxfam’s annual look at inequality. This year, Oxfam looks at unpaid and underpaid care work and the global inequality crisis. I speak with Paul O’Brien, Vice President of Policy […]
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Episode 117: The Bezos-Style Greed Is On Fire!; Tunisian Workers Revolt
Posted on 30 January 2019.
The rich are living the creed of the 1987 film “Wall Street”: Greed is good! Consider this: 26 billionaires now have a collective wealth of $1.4 trillion—equal to the wealth of the bottom 3.8 billion people on the planet. That’s just a smidgen of the immorality I discuss with Oxfam America’s Paul O’Brien, whose organization […]
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