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Around the world, in developing and so-called advanced countries alike, millions are facing food insecurity and hunger amid soaring prices and shortages of food.
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Pay packages for US CEOs hit record for sixth year in a row
The median pay package for the CEOs of the biggest US corporations set another record in 2021 of $14.7 million and included an increase of $1 million in cash compensation.
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Let them bake cake: UK Conservative MP blames foodbank use on workers’ lack of budgeting and catering skills
The fact that the Johnson government feels no compulsion to make any concessions to alleviate the growth of inequality and absolute poverty—even from the standpoint of self-preservation—is the greatest indictment of the Labour Party and the trade unions.
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New York Times says economic conditions for US workers “haven’t been this bright since men landed on the moon”
The Times paints a fantastic picture of social conditions in the US, claiming that hundreds of millions of American workers have never had it better.
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“Inequality kills”: Capitalism and the COVID-19 pandemic
On Monday, the British charity Oxfam published a report documenting the malignant growth of social inequality during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Price surge slashes workers’ living standards
Seven percent inflation in 2021 resulted in a real wage reduction of an average 2.4 percent for US workers.
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Winter of death: Two deadly housing fires in less than a week expose the reality of American capitalism
New York City and Philadelphia saw their deadliest housing fires in decades amid a climate of official indifference to death as the COVID-19 pandemic has been allowed to rage out of control.
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How American capitalism profits on death
Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the correspondence between mass infection and stock prices is well established. The markets fall when they suspect measures will be taken to stop the spread of COVID-19, and they rise when the disease is allowed to spread unchecked.
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