Gladwyn d’SouzaThe report also assessed countries on their willingness to cooperate globally through U.N. institutions. The United States was ranked in last place.
"A large majority of countries are supportive of collaborating… but there are a number of great powers that do not play by the rules of the game," said Lafortune.
#TragedyOfEnclosure #InstitutionalizedPoverty
#InstitutionalizedPoverty: There are 42 million people living in poverty in the U.S. Nearly 40 percent of single-mother families live in poverty and one in three people who experienced poverty as a child will continue to live in poverty as an adult.
#BipaertisanShreddedSafetyNet: The transfer between boomers and their kids will be the “largest flow of generational capital ever seen in the history of humanity,” author and investor Ken Costa told the Big Issue last year... Soaring house prices are partly to blame for the inequality.
https://www.bigissue.com/news/politics/30-year-olds-10000-citizens-inheritance-tory-peer/
#MoneyToLevelApartmentsInGazaAndBuildSettlementsButAffordableHousingIsBroke
Opinion: I can’t afford to pay parking tickets, so my car got towed. It upended my life https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-08-31/car-towed-unpaid-parking-tickets-california-los-angeles
#povertyisexpensive: The toll on my mental #health has hit me hard. From Day 1, I couldn’t be there for my daughter when she was in the #hospital. I’m unable to make the #income I need to #support my #family. Now I face losing my car and am buried in even greater #debt.
#InstitutionalizedPoverty #BrokenTaillightPolicing #ShreddedSafetyNet #HowTheLawFailsWomen #FailingTransit #sprawlscape
https://www.levernews.com/labor-days-secret-history/
Working #people are not content to reminisce about their #past accomplishments, or let them fade into obscurity. They are still fighting for a #revolutionary #future
#InstitutionalizedPoverty #CRTisHistory #AllJobsShouldBeUnionJobs #LaborIsAnExploitableCommodity #GreenNewDealJobs #CapitalismCreatesOligarchs
#GreedIsBad: the root #cause of #poverty is #exploitation. #People are poor because other people benefit from the #presence of poverty: “To understand the causes of poverty, we must look beyond the poor. Those of us living lives of #privilege and #plenty must examine ourselves.”
#TragedyOfEnclosure #InstitutionalizedPoverty #WarOnSubsistence #DegradedScapes #AllJobsShouldBeUnionJobs #LaborIsAnExploitableCommodity #StateSanctionedViolence
