Daily Archives: September 20, 2021

2021-09-20: News Headlines

rebekah (2021-09-20). The Millionaires Surtax in House Tax Committee Proposal. inequality.org

Sarah Anderson (2021-09-20). The World Bank's Deregulation Guide Goes Down in Flames — 18 Years Too Late. inequality.org

WSWS (2021-09-20). COVID-19 vaccine inequality: 75 percent of doses administered in just 10 countries. wsws.org Vaccination rates are by far the lowest in Africa, where around 39 million or 3 percent of the continent's 1.3 billion population have been fully vaccinated.

Julie Yixia Cai — Dean Baker (2021-09-20). Black and Asian American Workers Falling Behind in Getting Back Jobs. counterpunch.org In the first half of 2021, the economy added more than 4.2 million jobs, a rise of almost 3.0 percent, as it rapidly added back jobs lost during the pandemic-related recession. In a recent report in July 2021, Jason Furman and William Powell documented that the recent job transition rate from unemployment to employment was

Julie Yixia Cai — Dean Baker (2021-09-20). lack and Asian American Workers Falling Behind in Getting Back Jobs. counterpunch.org In the first half of 2021, the economy added more than 4.2 million jobs, a rise of almost 3.0 percent, as it rapidly added back jobs lost during the pandemic-related recession. In a recent report in July 2021, Jason Furman and William Powell documented that the recent job transition rate from unemployment to employment was

news.un (2021-09-19). Struggling economies, widening inequality and millions vulnerable: the urgent need for vaccine equity. news.un.org Health leaders agree that a world without COVID-19 will not be possible until everyone has equal access to vaccines. More than 4.6 million people have died from the virus since it swept across the globe from the beginning of 2020, but it's expected that the rate of people dying will slow if more people are vaccinated.

Rebekah Entralgo (2021-09-19). Unemployment Insurance Isn't Holding Back the Economy. Inequality Is. zcomm.org Ending enhanced unemployment benefits didn't get people back to work. It just made them poorer…

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