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#inequality

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salix sericea (@Ripple13216)

I like how Trump admin folks come out of the shadows in their quest for podcast celebrity. Lutnick, Commerce Sec, bragged about him coining (😉) the acronym DOGE & "External Revenue Service".

And he loves the US of 1913: no income tax, lots of tariffs, no Social Security.

Another transactional billionaire who donated money to Hillary C. because she "really helped me" after his business got badly hit by 9/11.

#Lutnick#DOGE#inequality
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"One week after the killing of UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson, an intelligence report compiled by a regional intelligence center made an admission that’s shocking in its simplicity: Rising health care costs are correlated to threats against executives and civil unrest.

The two-page document obtained by the Prospect and compiled by the Connecticut regional intelligence center—one of dozens of fusion centers across the country that communicate intelligence between federal agencies and state law enforcement—is uncharacteristically forthright in its language and assessment that health care costs lead to instability, and that the reaction to suspect Luigi Mangione’s alleged action was largely positive.

According to the dossier, “Healthcare expenditure in the United States increased from $2.75Trillion (T) in 2004, to $4.09T in 2018, in inflation adjusted dollars. 2019 and 2020, saw expenditures of $4.2T and $4.6T respectfully, which represents a 10.6% increase year over year and was largely influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Historically, threats or actual acts of violence against those in the healthcare industry rose by more than 60% from 2011 to 2018.”

The dossier adds that the public “may view the ensuing manhunt and subsequent arrest of Mangione as NYPD, and largely policing as a whole, as a tool that is willing to expend massive resources to protect the wealthy, while the average citizen is left to their own means for personal security.”"

prospect.org/justice/2025-03-2

The American Prospect · Exclusive: Intelligence Dossier Compares Luigi Mangione to ‘Robin Hood’The document from a state fusion center cites high health care costs as a key source of instability in the country.
#USA#Healthcare#HealthInsurance
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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

Amy Booker (Women's Budget Group) is right; to counter the appeal of the Far Right we (the country) needs to invest in care & welfare... bu building a fairer economy that everyone feels they have a stake in, the appeal of the Far Right is undermined.

However, this is a message to which the current Labour party leader(s) seem to be either wilfully deaf to, or positively reject.

Time for a change of strategy!

#politics #inequality

full statement:
frompoverty.oxfam.org.uk/auste

The choice: an inclusive or divided society? With geopolitics shifting rapidly, and as the UK is still grappling with the cumulative impact of Covid-19, Brexit, austerity, and the cost-of-living crisis, the UK government must choose whether it will invest in a green and caring economy that can be an antidote to far-right extremism – or keep going with funding cuts that risk stoking further inequality, and division. Investment in social infrastructure, such as childcare, social care, and healthcare, is crucial not only for building a fairer economy but for addressing the inequality that far-right movements thrive on. The decisions made today will shape our economy, our society, and the future of gender equality. The path we take matters, and we must choose the one that leads to greater equality, inclusion, and economic justice for everyone.
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&2i

"The [UK] government claims there is no money to lift people out of poverty, yet it finds billions for war and weapons. We believe there is an alternative. If you do too, please join other prominent figures across progressive politics, the trade unions and social movements by signing the Dignity Declaration"
thedignitydeclaration.co.uk/#s
#UKgovernment #politics #inequality #SocialJustice

Dignity DeclarationThe Dignity Declaration | Dignity DeclarationThe Dignity Declaration is an urgent call for a political alternative against austerity, war, and climate breakdown. Sign the declaration and lets build a society where every life is valued and dignity is guaranteed for all.
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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

Americans who voted for Trump while on Medicaid, Medicare or Social Security, as many poor Americans are, my find that Making America Great Again involves cutting their key source of income.

In 2022, people in over half of all counties in the US derived more that 25% of personal income from these three Govt. welfare schemes. In rural areas many of these people thought MAGA was the answer....

Trump may be about to show them the meaning of the term 'bait & switch'!

#politics #inequality
h/t FT

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Lyle Solla-Yates

"It is really disheartening to see this, and it links perfectly with the fact that it’s the well-being of youth in America that’s off a cliff, which is driving the drop in the rankings to a large extent" fortune.com/well/2025/03/20/am #inequality #trust #happiness

Fortune · Americans under 30 are so miserable that the U.S. just fell to a historic low ranking in the annual World Happiness ReportBy Alexa Mikhail
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"In summary, the first globalization saw the rise of the West, the second the rise of Asia; the first led to an increase of between-country inequalities, the second to their decline. Both globalizations tended to increase inequalities within nations. The unevenness of countries’ growth rates during Globalization I installed most of the Western populations at the top of the global income pyramid. It is rarely recognized just how highly placed even the poor deciles of the rich countries were in the global income distribution. Economist Paul Collier, in his Future of Capitalism, writes wistfully of the time when English workers were on top of the world. But for them to feel high, somebody else had to feel low.

The second globalization drove some of the Western middle classes from these perches and produced a great reshuffling of incomes as they were overtaken by a rising Asia. This relatively imperceptible decline occurred together with the Western middle classes’ far more perceptible one with respect to their own national elites. It caused political dissatisfaction that found its reflection in the rise of populist leaders and parties.

Finally, we should note that the convergence of worldwide incomes did not extend to Africa, which continued on its path of relative decline. If that is not changed — and the likelihood of such change seems low — the relative decline of Africa will, in the decades to come, overturn the forces currently pushing global inequality downward and usher in a new era of rising global inequality."

jacobin.com/2025/03/what-comes

jacobin.comWhat Comes After Globalization?The world as we know it is a product of globalization — and this era of globalization might be coming to a close.
#Globalization#Neoliberalism#Inequality
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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

Sarah O'Connor (FT) asks what happens when AI removes basic work from which new/junior staff learn the ropes?

One source she consulted 'wondered if we might one day see a return of the old apprenticeship system that existed in much of Europe before the industrial revolution, in which families who could afford it would pay for their offspring to be apprenticed to a master. The implications of this for social mobility — already not great in many professions — go without saying'!

#AI#inequality
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NatCen

In the latest SRA Research Matters magazine, Nathan Hudson discusses the social research sector's fundamental responsibility to investigate and understand the nature and impacts of racism, and, importantly, to actively address the systemic inequalities and power imbalances that exist within social research itself.

the-sra.org.uk/common/Uploaded #Inequality #SocialResearch

Anti-racist practice in qualitative research
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