Daily Archives: November 23, 2022

2022-11-23: News Headlines

Rebekah (2022-11-23). Farm Workers Push for Congressional Action During Lame Duck Session. inequality.org

John Simpkins (2022-11-23). Inflation Inequality: The Impact of Soaring Prices on the Bottom-Tier Communities of the South. commondreams.org Current approaches to fighting poverty and economic inequities are often individually strong, but they are not achieving the results that economically vulnerable households need. We need collective action and we need it now.

Imperial.ac.uk (2022-11-23). Podcast: Winter viruses, being an engineer, and improving energy efficiency. imperial.ac.uk In this edition: What flu and COVID-19 might do this winter, being an engineer, and how the UK can improve energy efficiency to fight fuel poverty.

Jake Johnson (2022-11-23). 'Greedy Behavior' of Profit-Hungry Rail Industry Blamed for Looming Strike. commondreams.org "The same wealthy rail industry executives that say they can't afford to pay their workers fair wages all had banner years in net revenue and shareholder giveaways."

Editor (2022-11-22). "South Africa's 'Just' transition climate deal with the west is a betrayal of the working class" mronline.org South Africa is set to implement an $8.5bn plan funded by western countries to transition from coal-based energy to renewables. The country's biggest union NUMSA has warned this plan will only intensify privatization while burdening South Africans with debt and poverty.

Gillian Branstetter (2022-11-22). The Club Q Shooting Took Trans Lives and Destabilized a Community. aclu.org When you talk to transgender people who came of age before the internet, you'll hear a common refrain: "I thought I was the only one." The experience of growing up transgender is most often a very lonely one, every childhood memory and familial relationship shaded by the pain of lacking the vocabulary to even ask for help, much less seek it out. Transgender people often grow up with the sullen certainty that no one will ever understand us, a sense of social isolation that, combined with widespread poverty, homelessness, and harassment, can often prove deadly. | All of this makes safe places for transgender peo…

Linda McQuaig (2022-11-22). Billionaires Like Elon Musk Are the Most Dangerous People on Planet Earth. commondreams.org The best hope of averting climate disaster may well be wealth taxes that significantly reduce the wealth and power of the super-rich.

Isabella (2022-11-21). Swifties, Welcome to the Anti-Monopoly Movement. inequality.org

Sophia (2022-11-21). Updates: Billionaire Wealth, U.S. Job Losses and Pandemic Profiteers. inequality.org

Ramzy Baroud (2022-11-21). Liberating Africa from Poverty Requires Changing Power Relations with the West. dissidentvoice.org Soon after arriving in Oslo, my taxi zigzagged through the city's well-organized streets and state-of-the-art infrastructure. Large billboards advertised the world's leading brands in fashion, cars, and perfumes. Amid all the expressions of wealth and plenty, an electronic sign by a bus stop flashed the images of poor looking African children needing help. Over the …

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