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What billionaires and giant corporations pay in taxes—and what that means for the rest of us. “We can either have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a ...
This report outlines how global inequality is shockingly entrenched and vast, with the number of billionaires having doubled in the last decade. The report also shows how our sexist economies are ...
The level of economic inequality in the city of Santiago in Brazil is evident along the border of a high-density, low-income favela neighborhood next to high-rise ...
How do the largest US corporations contribute to inequality? This research report summarizes the framework and findings of a first-of-its-kind assessment of the inequality performance of the largest ...
The Best States to Work Index, now in its sixth edition, is an index of 27 policies across three themes - wages, worker protections, and rights to organize - for all 50 states, the District of ...
Global inequality stems not just from what people have and don’t have—but what they're able to do with what they have. “The levels of inequality are horrendous," said Janet Fuentes, an activist from ...
For decades, the largest US corporations have been driving the inequality crisis, actively concentrating power and money in the hands of wealthy CEOs and shareholders while limiting the power of ...
New research reveals that nearly a third of all workers in the US earn under $15 an hour. But women and people of color do much more than their fair share of low-wage jobs, and as wages lose value, it ...
Kitao Lenamparas, a farmer in Samburu County, Kenya, works in his bean field. This area of Kenya recently had five consecutive failed rainy seasons. This climate-induced drought caused widespread loss ...
In reaction to the Trump administration’s re-designation of Yemen’s Houthis as a terrorist organization, Oxfam America’s Director of Peace & Security Scott Paul said: “The Trump administration’s ...
Tax dodging by multinational corporations costs the US approximately $111 billion each year and saps an estimated $100 billion every year from poor countries, preventing crucial investments in ...
With mining set to expand as part of the sweeping energy transition, it is imperative that future mining only proceed with the full support and consent of Indigenous peoples and frontline communities.