TinDrum12h ago

‘for every percentage point increase in the Gini coefficient of income inequality there was a roughly identical increase in support for far-right parties. Measures introduced by mainstream parties in government, such as tightening eligibility and rendering harsher conditions for welfare benefits, had fuelled ‘distrust and disenchantment’ amid increasing precarity, weaker unions and a declining labour share in economic output’

#socialDemocracy #responsibleGovernment #taxesPayForSecurity

https://www.socialeurope.eu/social-rights-the-idea-whose-time-has-come

Social Rights: The Idea Whose Time Has Come?

A remarkable consensus on social rights is emerging as Europe's answer to inequality, democratic backsliding and geopolitical upheaval.

Social Europe
Kathy BrysonNov 28

OMG! Who'da thunk?! 😲 🤦

Iowa City Made Its #Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/climate/iowa-city-free-buses.html

#masstransit #cleanair #Traffic #TrafficAwareness #urbanplanning #environment #climateaction #responsiblegovernment

Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.

Ridership jumped, people cut back on driving and, over the summer, the city extended the program another year.

The New York Times
Joseph Lim Sep 8, 2024

Just do it already iso yapping... 😫
#ActionNotWords
#ResponsibleGovernment #StopCorruption

Ministry to tackle #Chinesegoods influx
"Commerce Ministry has vowed to tackle the issue of #Chinese products #flooding into #Thailand.. would expedite work on key issues affecting the #public, including the high cost of many goods & the influx of #cheapChinese #products, some of which #fail to meet #consumer #safetystandards..
added e #government must #enforce #laws more strictly"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/general/2861446/ministry-to-tackle-chinese-goods-influx

Ministry to tackle Chinese goods influx

<p>The Commerce Ministry has vowed to tackle the issue of <strong>Chinese products</strong> flooding into Thailand, Minister Pichai Naripthaphan said.</p>

Bangkok Post
Peter V. Tretter ✅ 🇨🇦Mar 19, 2023
‘Let us stand erect like men’: How Canada achieved ‘responsible’ government in 1848 | TVO Today https://bit.ly/3LwfKJp #CanadianHistory #ResponsibleGovernment #cdnpoli @canadiangreens @cdnpoli
TVO Today | Current Affairs Journalism, Documentaries and Podcasts

Di NuttJan 25, 2023
Not everyone thinks #tax is a dirty word #responsibleGovernment #socialResponsibility #SupportNHSStaff #NHS #SocialCareCrisis
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/25/nadhim-zahawi-british-millionaires-pay-taxes-nhs
Dear Nadhim Zahawi: here’s what patriotic British millionaires do – we pay our proper taxes

Tax pays for our NHS, cares for our pensioners, educates our kids and defends our country. Anyone ‘careless’ about that is unfit to govern, says campaigner and philanthropist Julia Davies of the Patriotic Millionaires

The Guardian