Wealth Inequality in LatAm Increased During the COVID Pandemic
Editor2 | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-31
While extreme poverty in Latin America reached its highest level in the last two decades with an increase of 12.5%, the number of billionaires in the region has gone up by 40% since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. | The wealthiest people in Latin America have managed to further increase their wealth thanks to the re-evaluation of stock markets during the pandemic. | The latest data from Forbes magazine confirms these facts, noting that in Latin America and the Caribbean, the number of billionaires has shot up 40% since the pandemic began. | At the beginning of 2020, when the virus had just broken out,…
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Unemployment Benefits and Summer Workers: Contrary to What the WaPo Tells You, They Aren't Getting $1,000 a Week
Dean Baker | cepr.net | 2021-05-30
Here's a pro tip for reporters: employers' complaints about getting workers are not always honest. This one may have been helpful for a piece about employers at summer beach locations are having a hard time finding workers. The piece discusses the difficulty several employers face in finding workers. At one point it recounts the story …
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Unemployment Benefits and Summer Workers: Contrary to What the WaPo Tells You, They Aren't Getting $1,000 a Week
Dean Baker | cepr.net | 2021-05-30
Here's a pro tip for reporters: employers' complaints about getting workers are not always honest. This one may have been helpful for a piece about employers at summer beach locations are having a hard time finding workers. The piece discusses the difficulty several employers face in finding workers. At one point it recounts the story …
cepr.net/unemployment-benefits-and-summer-workers-contrary-to-what-the-wapo-tells-you-they-arent-getting-1000-a-week/

The Booming Economy and Debt and Deficit Fears
Dean Baker | cepr.net | 2021-05-30
Most of the data on the economy is looking very good these days. The number of weekly unemployment claims has fallen sharply. Levels are still high, but just over half the level we were seeing earlier this year. And, this is before all the moves by Republican governors to cut back benefits, so the decline …
cepr.net/the-booming-economy-and-debt-and-deficit-fears/

State of the World — Poverty Is Widespread
Rod Driver | globalresearch.ca | 2021-05-30
"Like slavery and …
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U.S. Has The Most-Unequal Wealth Distribution of Any Major Country
Anonymous103 | southfront.org | 2021-05-30
Illustrative image | Written by Eric Zuesse. | The most-reliable information-source regarding the distribution of wealth inside each country is the periodic nearly 200-page Credit Suisse "Global wealth databook," which is produced by a large team and is therefore too costly to generate annually, but the latest freely available edition of it is their "Global wealth databook 2019". | We…
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