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Clarence Fanto | The Bottom Line: Verizon strike reflects expanding gulf of inequality
2016-04-16 18:45:40| IT Services - Topix.net
LENOX >> Seeing Verizon union members on a picket line in Pittsfield and other East Coast states since Wednesday serves as a nostalgic reminder of a bygone era, when workers in manufacturing, service and a wide range of industries and professions could raise families on solid middle-class salaries and hourly wages. Now only 11 percent of American workers are unionized - 35 percent of public sector employees but only about 6 percent in the private sector.
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Study Finds Climate Change May Drive Wealth Inequality
2016-03-03 21:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Courthouse News Service: Rising ocean temperatures caused by climate change are driving fish populations to cooler water, and the changes will have an "inevitable and unpredictable" impact on the world's economy, according to a study by university researchers. Researchers say important fish species are relocating closer to the Earth's poles because of continued global warming and their migration could devastate certain fishing-based economies. The changes are shifting natural resources from nations near the equator and...
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VIDEO: Piketty warns of India inequality
2016-01-28 03:43:12| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
French economist Thomas Piketty says India must address inequality even as millions are lifted out of poverty.
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The Davos solution to inequality? Another corporate power grab
2016-01-23 19:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: Inequality is on the agenda at the World Economic Forum in Davos this year, write David Sogge & Nick Buxton. A good thing, right? But look at the proposed 'solutions': ramp up the neoliberal 'development' model; lighten business regulation; pursue globalisation with greater vigor ... Yes, you got it. They would all accelerate the transfer the world's wealth upwards to corporate elites. It's become an annual tradition. Every year, Oxfam publishes shocking statistics on inequality just days before...
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Academics & Activists Discuss Poverty, Inequality, Conflict
2016-01-14 20:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Poverty, inequality and global conflict are issues that remain under-prioritised, said President of Malta Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca in a recorded message, kicking off a conference at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Poverty and inequality are now recognized worldwide as causes of violent conflictthe sad truth is that not enough is being done to uphold the rights of vulnerable people, she continued. Delving into these issues further were a group of almost 30 representatives from...
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