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When wealth flows upwards faster than it flows through the wider economy, demand weakens, local businesses suffer and ordinary people feel poorer despite economic growth on paper. #Inequality #Economy
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#Inequality: "a global public remarkably united in its anger over economic unfairness. And beneath this shared consensus lies a far more dangerous development: a #collapse in public #trust that governments possess either the will or the capacity to fix it"
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How do you motivate workers with guaranteed jobs? Coming tomorrow, a conversation with University College London economist Lukas Lehner about his research into guaranteed job programs and universal basic income (UBI). And EFIP co-director Suresh Naidu joins as co-host. #economics #inequality #EFIP
Reminder: in his so-called "austerity" budget last year, Mark Carney deleted the luxury tax on private planes, yachts, and underused homes.
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The Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research @isi-munich.bsky.social at @lmu.de is hiring a Junior Research Group Leader in Wealth #Inequality Research. Applications for the full-time, three-year role close on 15 November: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/3...
The roughly 100 tech fortunes among the worldโs 500 richest people gained a combined $845 billion through September 30, the most ever for the first nine months of a year
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Sharing an oldie today, showing the kind of work I made 15 years ago (this cartoon is from 2011). It was a period in my career when I would try to disguise the fact that I was lousy at drawing humans by drawing animals instead.
#Inequality #Equality: "inequalities are part of even the most equal of societies"
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The same places are thin in field after field, and they are more often the poorer ones.
The more residents on low incomes, the more fields where an area has little or none of the national network. Among them: Portsmouth, Barking and Dagenham, Hartlepool, Thurrock, Havering.