A new index shows 95% of world governments have failed to raise taxes on the rich and corporations while many countries slashed health and education spending during the Covid-19 crisis.
Source: Global Index Shows Governments Unleashed ‘Inequality Explosion’ During Pandemic
A new generation of vaccines and boosters against SARS-CoV-2 may take a page from the anti-influenza playbook, with shots periodically tailored to target the most commonly circulating virus strains.
Decrying the “brutally unequal global rollout of Covid-19 vaccines,” Yunus wrote that “there is still time for world leaders to say never again.”
Source: World Leaders Must Commit to End Covid-19 Patents: Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus
Unions appear to be making a comeback as the Covid-19 economic crisis has emboldened workers and stirred up longstanding outrage over inequality and inadequate wages and benefits. Since Starbucks workers at stores in the Buffalo, N.Y., area petitioned to be represented by a union in August 2021, employees at about 250 Starbucks stores in 30 states have launched organizing drives. Workers at a store in Mesa, Arizona, voted in to unionize in mid-March.
Source: A Labor Rebirth? | Portside
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