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Violence against women is staggeringly high in South Africa – a different way of thinking about it is needed
South Africa has notoriously high levels of violence against women. The latest police figures show that 10,818 rape cases were reported in the first quarter of 2022. The country has among the highest rape incidence in the world. How can gender-based violence in the country be reduced?
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Iowa GOP bill would ban SNAP recipients from buying American cheese, white bread
Iowa Republicans are proposing sweeping changes to the state's food assistance program — including banning beneficiaries from buying grocery staples like meat, American cheese, or flour. A bill co-sponsored by 39 Republican state legislators would limit those getting Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits to buying food on a more restrictive list from a separate program intended for pregnant women and children.
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‘This is not an employee choice': The CEO of Morgan Stanley gets real and says employees can't simply choose to work remotely
The pandemic has completely transformed people’s working lives. Employees across industries have gotten used to remote work, and they want to hold onto it, fighting back against efforts to bring them back into the office, and experts warning that if companies don’t welcome remote work, they risk losing talent.
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Inequality is literally killing us: The most unequal societies suffer most in public health metrics
Income inequality has soared with the pandemic, providing incriminating evidence that it kills
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Google’s ‘Democratic AI’ is Better At Redistributing Wealth Than America
It’s no secret that the overwhelming majority of wealth in the United States is concentrated at the very top, creating staggering levels of poverty and inequality that vastly outpace other supposedly “wealthy” nations. But while the current political system ensures that this upward extraction of wealth continues, AI researchers have begun playing with a fascinating question: is machine learning better equipped than humans to create a society that divides resources more equitably?
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Why it's harder to earn more than your parents
In the 21st century it's got harder to earn more than your parents and to climb the social ladder. What's gone wrong, and what can be done to change this?
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Intel CEO earned 1,711 times more than average company worker in 2021
Intel Corp Chief Executive Officer Pat Gelsinger earned 1,711 times as much as the average worker at the U.S. chipmaker in just 11 months since he joined in February last year, a regulatory filing showed on Wednesday.
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Opinion: Taxing extreme wealth could lift 2.3 billion people out of poverty
The pandemic has shone a spotlight on how inequality kills. As inequalities in income, wealth and access to health care have accelerated, the world's most economically precarious people have suffered far more than their fair share of death and economic loss. As a new Oxfam report points out, inequality contributes to the deaths of more than 21,000 people each day.
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A huge study of 20 years of global wealth demolishes the myth of 'trickle-down' and shows the rich are taking most of the gains for themselves
The globe's richest people own far more wealth than the bottom half — including Elon Musk, the world's richest man.Picture Alliance/Getty Images
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Why happiness is becoming more expensive and out of reach
New research from University of Sydney has found that the income level required to be happy in Australia has been increasing and moving out of reach of most Australians.
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The wealthiest 10% of Americans own a record 89% of all U.S. stocks
The wealthiest 10% of Americans now own 89% of all U.S. stocks, a record high that highlights the stock market’s role in increasing wealth inequality.
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When the First Farmers Arrived in Europe, Inequality Evolved
Eight thousand years ago small bands of seminomadic hunter-gatherers were the only human beings roaming Europe's lush, green forests. Archaeological digs in caves and elsewhere have turned up evidence of their Mesolithic technology: flint-tipped tools with which they fished, hunted deer and aurochs (a now extinct species of ox), and gathered wild plants.
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Photos of a new, sprawling Amazon warehouse in Mexico surrounded by deteriorating shacks have gone viral as the tech giant continues to expand its footprint internationally
A sprawling new Amazon fulfillment center in Tijuana, Mexico, is surrounded by deteriorating housing. The photographer Omar Martinez captured images of the warehouse, which show a stark contrast between Amazon's crisp, white facility and the crumbling shacks around it. They were shared widely and discussed on Reddit and Twitter.
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Study: As cities grow in size, the poor 'get nothing at all'
On average, people in larger cities are better off economically. But a new study published in the Royal Society Interface builds on previous research that says, that’s not necessarily true for the individual city-dweller. It turns out, bigger cities also produce more income inequality.
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The Great Resignation: How employers drove workers to quit
When the pandemic began, Melissa Villareal was teaching history to middle schoolers at a private school in a wealthy California neighborhood. It was a job and a field she loved. Now, just over a year later, she’s left teaching entirely, to work in industrial design at a large beauty company.
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Perpetual Poorness: Reframing the Welfare State
A poor, single mother of two is deemed ineligible for government assistance because she did not meet the state requirements. On face value, the government saved a few thousand dollars in turning her down. Consequently, her two children grow up with an unhealthy diet, perform poorly in school, and are more likely to get arrested.
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South Carolina State University forgives loans of 2,500 former students
A university in South Carolina is forgiving the student loans of over 2,500 students who stopped attending school because of financial hardship. South Carolina State University, the state’s only public Historically Black College or University (HBCU), announced last week that the school was automatically clearing the loan accounts of students who have not registered for classes or who dropped out entirely because they could no longer afford college.
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Richest Americans pay almost no income taxes, report finds
A report from ProPublica illustrated how wealthy people in the U.S. are able to avoid income taxes by keeping the bulk of their wealth in investments that have little or no taxes.
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Tasks, Automation, and the Rise in US Wage Inequality
We document that between 50% and 70% of changes in the US wage structure over the last four decades are accounted for by the relative wage declines of worker groups specialized in routine tasks in industries experiencing rapid automation. We develop a conceptual framework where tasks across a number of industries are allocated to different types of labor and capital.
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Survey Shows People No Longer Believe Working Hard Will Lead To A Better Life
A growing sense of inequality is undermining trust in both society’s institutions and capitalism, according to a long-running global survey. The 2020 Edelman Trust Barometer – now in its 20th year – has found many people no longer believe working hard will give them a better life.
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