Daily Archives: April 15, 2022

2022-04-15: News Headlines

Brian Wakamo (2022-04-15). Auto Workers, Climate Groups Team Up to Demand Union-Made, Electric Postal Vehicles. inequality.org

SAM (2022-04-15). Still Another Reason for Taxing the Rich. inequality.org

Sarah Anderson (2022-04-15). International Solidarity in Action: Lessons From a Path-Breaking US-Mexico Union Alliance. inequality.org

Kungu Al-Mahadi Adam (2022-04-15). MTN prepares youth to tackle the unemployment Gap. plusnews.ug In a market with too many applicants and not enough jobs, getting experience is a catch-22; you need it to get jobs, you need a job to get it. It is not once that employers in Uganda have voiced their grievance of employing youth armed with theoretical knowledge and no practical experience. It gets worse …

Ashley Curtin (2022-04-15). Rep. Jamaal Brown introduces legislation that will propose income tax reform for ultra-wealthy. nationofchange.org The introduced tax code for the nearly 700 billionaires would raise $1 trillion over ten years, according to a press release.

rebekah (2022-04-14). An Oligarchy Expert Answers Our Questions About Wealth and Empowerment. inequality.org

Sarah Anderson (2022-04-14). Ousted Pakistani Leader Was Challenging Investment Treaties That Give Corporations Excessive Power. inequality.org

Matt Sedlar (2022-04-14). Righting the Record: Claims that SDRs "Help US Enemies" Are Baseless. cepr.net In August of last year, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting global economic crisis with a new allocation of $650 billion worth of Special Drawing Rights (SDRS). These assets serve to supplement the foreign reserve holdings of countries, thereby helping stabilize their finances and avoid balance of payments crises, which can cause severe economic damage and increases in poverty and mortality. SDRs can also be exchanged for hard currency by countries in need, in order to invest in economic recovery plans and import essential goods, including vaccines and medica…

WSWS (2022-04-14). Leaked IRS data expose manipulation of US tax system by the ultra-wealthy. wsws.org The data provide a glimpse into how the US tax system is structured to benefit the personal wealth of a handful of billionaires and multimillionaires.

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