As the 1% gather face to face again at the World Economic Forum in the luxury Swiss mountain resort of Davos from today, the Fight Inequality Alliance will protest in cities and towns across the world to say we need to #TaxTheRich.https://t.co/bCfczqhYqm
— Greenpeace (@Greenpeace) May 22, 2022
Category: economy
Restarting child tax credit
Food insufficiency in families with children increased after expiration of Child Tax Credit monthly payments | Economic Policy Institute
Amidst the continuing COVID-19 pandemic and increased inflation, 15% of households with children reported food insufficiency in March–April 2022. The reports of food insufficiency—sometimes or often not having enough food to eat in the past week—are from the nationally representative Household Pulse Survey (HPS), an internet survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. Food insufficiency…
Crypto Crash Explained: How Crypto Repeated Wall Street’s Mistakes.
Everyone is panicking about cryptocurrency. We’re going to unpack what’s happening for you, by looking at the fallout of a different market crash.
Source: Crypto Crash Explained: How Crypto Repeated Wall Street’s Mistakes. | Portside
1 in 6 US kids are in families below the poverty line
An alternative approach to measuring poverty detected a decline in 2021, amid a surge in government support for low-income families.
Source: 1 in 6 US kids are in families below the poverty line
Economist Paul Krugman explains why MAGA’s ‘paranoid’ mindset has overtaken the GOP
Limits to Growth: Where We Stand Today
Sometime in the 1960’s a group of prominent businessmen in Europe decided it was time to face up to the contra di ction that l ies at the heart of mode rn
Source: Limits to Growth: Where We Stand Today – CounterPunch.org
1848+: The End(s) of History 