High-income countries have long sent their waste abroad to be thrown away or recycled — and an independent team of experts says they’re inundating the … Rich countries export twice as much plastic waste to the developing world as previously thoughtRead more
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New Report on Inequality and Extreme Wealth Proves the Need to Tax the Rich
Today, Oxfam released a comprehensive report, “Survival of the Richest,” outlining the state of wealth inequality globally and proposed potential solutions to this problem, namely, … New Report on Inequality and Extreme Wealth Proves the Need to Tax the RichRead more
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Top 10% Now Own 77% of American Wealth
As President Donald Trump and the Republican Party unveiled their “cruel joke” of a tax plan that would provide an enormous boon for the rich … Top 10% Now Own 77% of American WealthRead more
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Rising National Income But Declining Welfare of People
INDIA’S per capita income, representing the average income of an Indian citizen, has risen from INR 79,000 in 2013–14 to INR 1,71,000 in 2022–23 — … Rising National Income But Declining Welfare of PeopleRead more
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Survival of the richest
Elon Musk, one of the world’s richest men, paid a ‘true tax rate’ of just over 3% from 2014 to 2018. Aber Christine, a market … Survival of the richestRead more
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Teacher equity and maths identity
Who can do well in math? How you answer that question may depend on where you live. Whereas people in East Asian countries tend to … Teacher equity and maths identityRead more
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More wealth for the rich is a waste
the distribution of the new wealth that was generated in 2020 and 2021. As the graph shows, 63% of new wealth went to the top … More wealth for the rich is a wasteRead more
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Every Billionaire Is a Policy Failure
As the world’s corporate and political elite convened in Davos, Switzerland for the first winter World Economic Forum in three years, an analysis published Monday … Every Billionaire Is a Policy FailureRead more