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One Billionaire Has Been Created Every 30 Hours During Pandemic, Oxfam Says
In the shadow of the Davos summit of global elites taking place this week, a new report from Oxfam International details how skyrocketing inequality
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Prof Prem Sikka: Britain’s cost of living crisis is mostly manufactured by government policies
Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords,
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They Never Got To WFH
COVID-19 They Never Got To WFH By Monica Potts May 19, 2022, at 12:38 PM One in three jobs held by women were deemed essential
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The Work-From-Home Era Left Them Out
COVID-19 The Work-From-Home Era Left Them Out By Monica Potts May 19, 2022, at 12:38 PM One in three jobs held by women were
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Raising SSI asset limits raises recipient opportunity
Many of America’s most vulnerable families cannot build up savings without risking their livelihood because of an obsolete technicality. While the
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Technologies of Equal Participation: Formats, Designs, Practices. Introduction.
This browser does not support HTML5 audio Listen to an audio recording of this piece read by Svetlana Borodina Photo by Gareth David on
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Median CEO Pay Leaps to Record $14.7 Million as Workers Strike for Better Wages
As workers across the U.S. attempt to unionize and walk off the job over brutal conditions and starvation wages, an analysis released Sunday found
Private schools aren’t ‘losing’ places at Oxbridge, their unfair privileges are being tackled- that’s all
When you’re used to privilege, equality feels like oppression. That was the immediate quote that came to mind as I saw yet more newspaper columns
Public Defenders Are About to Be on the Front Lines for Protecting Abortion Rights
With abortion set to become illegal quickly this summer in as many as 26 states should the Supreme Court finalize the leaked decision to overturn Roe
Tory minister slammed for saying people should work more hours to protect themselves from cost of living crisis
It keeps happening. Tory ministers can’t help but show just how out of touch they are with the lives of ordinary people up and down the country who
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The End of “Roe” Will Lead to More Family Separation and Child Disappearance
“This strategy of making fetal protection more important than the lives and freedom of women and other pregnant people began with the prosecutions
Levelling up? Majority of constituencies have fallen further behind since Johnson became PM
‘Levelling up’ has become the centre piece of the government’s vision for a post-Brexit Britain, a flagship policy that Boris Johnson has used
Natalie Bennett: The Queen’s Speech was devoid of ideas on both the economy and environment
Natalie Bennett is a Green Party peer and a Contributing Editor to Left Foot Forward Across the political spectrum of the UK’s newspapers, from the
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Medical injury? Don’t call the lawyers.
Key takeaways: Replacing the U.S. tort-based compensation system for medical errors with a no-fault approach similar to that used in Nordic countries
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 2, May 2022
1.BMW faces strikes at Oxford MINI as component pay offer overwhelmingly rejected Strikes by warehouse workers based at Oxford’s MINI plant will