Home • Missouri IndependentCommunity-driven pilot program seeks solution to child care scarcity, affordability crisis
Mojo ♻️Australia now has 48 billionaires (up 8 since 2020, because why not?), and these 48 people collectively hold more wealth than the bottom 40% of the entire population — that's roughly 11 million everyday Aussies combined.
Meanwhile, the average Aussie billionaire's wealth grew by almost $600,000 per day over the past year. That's right — while rents climb, groceries hurt, and 3.7 million people (including 757,000 kids) live below the poverty line, the ultra-rich are casually printing half a mil a day. Totally normal, totally moral.
Oxfam is calling it what it is: inequitable, unsustainable, and amoral.
Their big ask? A 5% wealth tax on billionaires alone could've raised $17.4 billion just last year — enough to fund universal cheap childcare, extend energy bill relief for years, massively boost humanitarian aid, and actually ease the housing/childcare squeeze that's crushing everyone else.
Throw in scrapping negative gearing, killing the capital gains tax discount for the wealthy, and maybe a broader progressive wealth tax on the top 0.5%, and suddenly there's real money to fix the things governments always say "we can't afford".
But sure, let's keep protecting the system that lets 48 people out-wealth 11 million, while the rest of us argue about whether $2 milk is a human right. Classic Australia 2026.
Tax the rich. Disrupt the vicious cycle. Make billionaires pay their fair share for once.
***Side note:***
For context, the AFR Rich List 2025 (from May 2025) counts 161 Australian billionaires in AUD$ terms (net worth of AUD$1 billion or more), with the top 200 controlling $667.8 billion total and an entry threshold of $747 million (far higher than the ~$65 million needed in the 1980s). Oxfam deliberately highlights the ultra-elite 48 (Forbes USD threshold) for the most dramatic inequality stats, but the broader picture shows even greater concentration of extreme wealth.
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https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/wealth-tax-australia-billionaires-oxfam/9wsstq0nw
🐦🔥nemo™🐦⬛ 🇺🇦🍉Trump admin moves to cut vital child care for low-income student parents, threatening college dreams. 🚫👶🏽📚
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2025/05/28/trump-aid-student-parents-college-child-care/
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Houston Public MediaEducation and child advocacy leaders are warning that a proposal to eliminate federal funding for Head Start could devastate Texas families, erasing decades of progress in early childhood education and worsening an ongoing child care crisis.
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‘Cutting into the bone’: Houston-area child care could suffer under looming Head Start cuts, advocates say
The White House is expected to unveil a budget proposal that will, reportedly, aim to eliminate Head Start. The federally-funded program is designed to promote school readiness among young children from low-income families and serves more than 1,300 children in Harris County and 500 in Fort Bend County.
The Bright SideAs communities nationwide face fluctuating populations and rising child care costs, micro-centers present a practical solution.
They repurpose existing space, serving not only as care facilities but as a strategic employment benefit for school districts.
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Steve Jurrens - News DirectorJoin us at the community meeting on Watertown's childcare challenges on Wednesday, August 28th, from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM at the Lake Area Technical College (LATC) Student Center (4th Floor).
👉https://www.mykxlg.com/news/local/community-leaders-to-discuss-childcare-solutions-at-lake-area-tech-college/article_e58b4656-6244-11ef-aaf2-533053f6b29b.html #childcarecrisis #communitymeeting #KXLGRadio991 #KXLGNews
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Community leaders in Watertown are holding a town hall meeting on May 15th at 5:30 pm at the Lake Area Tech Student Center to address the ongoing childcare crisis. Join the discussion on meeting childcare needs
Read more: https://zurl.co/61gW
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Read more: https://zurl.co/61gW
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AutisticMumTo3Childcare in England failing and falling behind much of world, charity says | Early years education | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/apr/15/childcare-in-england-failing-and-falling-behind-much-of-world-charity-says
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Childcare places ‘fall by 1,000’ as Labour accuses ministers of ‘botched’ expansion | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-childcare-nursery-places-expansion-b2521315.html
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