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Makeshift camp @ Liverpool's Pier Head while protesting against increasing homelessness in the UK while so many buildings still stand empty.
This particular protest took place a mere few hundred yards from were thousands of well heeled passengers from Cunard's luxury cruise ship were stepping ashore
"The extent to which so much global wealth has become corralled by a virtual handful of the so-called 'global elite' is exposed in a new report from Oxfam on Monday. It warned that those richest 85 people across the globe share a combined wealth of £1tn, as much as the poorest 3.5 billion of the world's population."
www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jan/20/oxfam-85-richest...
US WORKERS ROBBED BY BIG NAME EMPLOYERS CONGRESS SLEEPING OR MEMBERS GETTING THEIR CUT!
Low-wage workers are robbed far more often than banks, gas stations and convenience stores combined -- and the perpetrators are their own employers.
"The country suffers an epidemic of wage theft, as large numbers of employers violate minimum-wage, overtime, and other wage and hour laws with virtual impunity," University of Oregon economist Gordon Lafer wrote in the report.
More than 60 percent of low-wage workers have some pay illegally withheld by their employer each week, according to a 2009 survey cited in the report. Low-paid workers lose a stunning $2,634 per year, on average, in unpaid wages, or 15 percent of their income, according to the report.
Wage theft across the country topped $185 million in 2008, according to the latest Labor Department data available. That was three times more than all the money lost in bank, gas-station and convenience-store robberies that same year, according to the Justice Department.
Even without wage theft, low wage workers already barely make enough to support themselves and their families. The incomes of the poorest working Americans took the biggest hit during the economic recovery and half of all the jobs created in the last three years paid 80 percent or less of the average private-sector wage of $20.04 per hour.
A large portion of these jobs were created at fast food restaurants like McDonald's where meager wages come at a huge cost to the taxpayer. Given that many fast food workers rely on public assistance programs like food stamps to supplement their income, a recent report estimated that low wages at the top 10 largest fast food chains cost taxpayers about $3.8 billion per year.
Low-Wage Workers Are Robbed More Than Banks, Gas Stations And Convenience Stores Combined
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Economist Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia University NY: We’ve been brainwashed BY RICH TO IGNORE INEQUALITY. It's no accident that Americans widely underestimate inequality. The rich prefer it that way. How, in a democracy supposedly based on one person one vote, could the 1 percent could have been so victorious in shaping policies in its interests? It is part of a process of disempowerment, disillusionment, and disenfranchisement that produces low voter turnout, a system in which electoral success requires heavy investments, and in which those with money have made political investments that have reaped large rewards — often greater than the returns they have reaped on their other investments.
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US Economic Policies a Perfect recipe to kill the Main Street (Financial Charts Prove it)
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US Economic Policies a Perfect recipe to kill the Main Street (Financial Charts Prove it) 98,858 views
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US Economic Policies a Perfect recipe to kill the Main Street (Financial Charts Prove it) 98,858 views
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US Economic Policies a Perfect recipe to kill the Main Street (Financial Charts Prove it) 98,858 views
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US Economic Policies a Perfect recipe to kill the Main Street (Financial Charts Prove it) 98,858 views
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US Economic Policies a Perfect recipe to kill the Main Street (Financial Charts Prove it) 98,858 views
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HK people occupied at the ground floor of the HSBC headquarters since Sept of 2011. This is part of the global movement now beginning to spread across the world like wild fire. Occupiers protest against everything from capitalism to the wealth gap in HK, government bias toward the rich and the powerful, ideological monopoly, financial/property hegemony, nuclear energy and the treatment of domestic helpers.
HK people occupied at the ground floor of the HSBC headquarters since Sept of 2011. This is part of the global movement now beginning to spread across the world like wild fire. Occupiers protest against everything from capitalism to the wealth gap in HK, government bias toward the rich and the powerful, ideological monopoly, financial/property hegemony, nuclear energy and the treatment of domestic helpers.
"The extent to which so much global wealth has become corralled by a virtual handful of the so-called 'global elite' is exposed in a new report from Oxfam on Monday. It warned that those richest 85 people across the globe share a combined wealth of £1tn, as much as the poorest 3.5 billion of the world's population."
www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jan/20/oxfam-85-richest...
Some people in Shanghai make money recycling anything they can find. This woman carrying several heavy bags and wearing a face mask attests to the fact that life is not easy for the city's poorest workers.
Although Shanghai is one of China's richest cities in terms of per capita income, the wealth divide is also wide.
A highway seperates the Nompumulelo township from the more upmarket suburb of Beacon Bay in East London, South Africa.
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HK people occupied at the ground floor of the HSBC headquarters since Sept of 2011. This is part of the global movement now beginning to spread across the world like wild fire. Occupiers protest against everything from capitalism to the wealth gap in HK, government bias toward the rich and the powerful, ideological monopoly, financial/property hegemony, nuclear energy and the treatment of domestic helpers.
HK people occupied at the ground floor of the HSBC headquarters since Sept of 2011. This is part of the global movement now beginning to spread across the world like wild fire. Occupiers protest against everything from capitalism to the wealth gap in HK, government bias toward the rich and the powerful, ideological monopoly, financial/property hegemony, nuclear energy and the treatment of domestic helpers.
US Economic Policies A Perfect Recipe To Kill The Main Street
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I thought it was interesting to see this billboard over the most eco gas station in LA, right on the edge of Beverly Hills. And in Spanish. I've seen others like it around town and wonder if there's a revolucion a-brewin' What's odd is that it's incorrect. Shouldn't it be La Planeta?
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Private Central Banks do not exist to serve the people, the community, or the nation. Private Central Banks exist to serve their owners, to make them rich beyond the dreams of Midas and all for the cost of ink, paper, and the right bribe to the right official.
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On February 18, readers gathered at the Hue-Man Bookstore in Harlem for a conversation about closing the wealth gap and teaching the next generations about the power of financial responsibility. Here's a pic from the event, which featured our BLACK TITAN authors Carol Jenkins and Elizabeth G. Hinds.
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From Left:
Dr. Jeffrey Liebman, Executive Associate Director, Office of
Management and Budget
Dr. Melvin Oliver, Dean of Social Sciences, University of California at Santa Barbara
Roger Clay, President, Insight Center for Community Economic Development
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#85 in our series of #99problems posters, to mark the 50th anniversary of the international rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association. 99 reminders that human rights are not the problem.
For more on the challenges that workers face exercising their assembly and association rights in the workplace, see the UN Special Rapporteur's 2016 report: freeassembly.net/reports/workers-rights/
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