"Gas prices hit a record in the United States. Stocks on Wall Street rose slightly, rebounding from their sharpest drop in more than a year."

>"Vaccine divide is costing lives and supercharging inequalities worldwide, a new report warns."

Stockton is out with preliminary results on its guaranteed-income program. Cash helps. It doesn't hurt the labor market. And it alleviates some of the toxic stress and anxiety lower-income families experience day in and day out.

Many poor countries that have so far contributed very little to global CO2 emissions are particularly vulnerable to rising temperatures and increased droughts, fires and floods linked to climate change, which threaten food security and _...Read More_

"How Emerging Markets Hurt Poor Countries from Boston Review. Financial globalization was supposed to spur development. Instead, it transfers money to the global North and exacerbates existing inequalities."

>"Pandemic has added to their debts while wealthy nations limit access to vaccines, says annual report"

"Beijing’s ambitious strategy to more evenly distribute the nation’s wealth is one of the buzziest topics on Chinese people’s minds these days, with lofty hopes intermixed with questions and concerns."

"Employment and wages soared in the latest labor report, but that’s small comfort for the many workers with a job that doesn’t pay a living wage."

"The Hrishipara Daily Diaries Project has been tracking the daily spending of 60 poor households in rural Bangladesh for the last six years. Analysis of the data collected – especially the changes to spending patterns that have occurred _...Read More_

"A new study shows that disparities in pulmonary health between the rich and poor have been widening for six decades, setting the stage for vastly unequal, devastating outcomes during the pandemic. The rich quite literally breathe easier _...Read More_

"The leaders of the Poor Peoples' Campaign, Rev. William Barber II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, Democratic US Reps. Barbara Lee, Pramila Jayapal and other Congressional backers of the new House resolution titled the Third Reconstruction, are _...Read More_

"The longer it takes for the United States to lead a global response, the more the risks compound."

"The warnings come ahead of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank spring meetings in Washington."

"Calculating a poor person’s wealth is a science. For a rich person, it’s an incredibly abstract art."

"Rarely does one hear about upward redistribution, whereby a few cents taken from everyone make a few individuals very rich indeed. Worse, the 2020 US election all but ensures that this 'trickle-up' dynamic will continue.American _...Read More_