#poorest — Public Fediverse posts
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The largest country in the #world by #population and one of the #poorest - #India - hammered by the #US 1. #tariffs up from ~3% to ~18% 2. high #fees on #legal #immigration; hurts #remittances 3. #iran #war raising #oil #gas prices; hurts remittances www.carboncopy.info/west-asia-sh...
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The largest country in the #world by #population and one of the #poorest - #India - simply getting hammered by the #US
1. #tariffs up from ~3% to ~18%
2. high #fees on #legal #immigration - hurts #remittances
3. #iran #war that is raising #oil #gas prices imported mainly from the #middleeast and hurts remittances
https://www.carboncopy.info/west-asia-shock-ripples-through-india-s-kitchens-factories-and-supply-chainsl -
unctad.org/system/files... Access to #fertilizers may worsen for some of the #poorest #countries - e.g. #Sudan #Somalia #Pakistan #Srilanka etc. - who are already reeling from all kinds of other major problems such as #drought #war #flood etc. #climate #climatechange #iran #climatecrisis
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https://unctad.org/system/files/official-document/osgttinf2026d1_en.pdf
Access to #fertilizers may worsen for
some of the #poorest #countries - e.g. #Sudan #Somalia #Pakistan #Srilanka etc. - who are already reeling from all kinds of other major problems such as #drought #war #flood etc.See all the slides from this informational presentation.
#climate #climatechange #iran #climatecrisis #extinction #survival #starvation #hunger #food #agriculture #farmers
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www.imf.org/en/blogs/art... FFS... in a kinder #world most of this #foreign direct #investment would be happening in the #poorest parts of the world. #development #democracy #empathy #generosity #philanthropy #housing #healthcare #food #water #education #humanrights #climatechange #adaptation
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FFS... in a kinder #world most of this #foreign direct #investment would be happening in the #poorest parts of the world.
#development #democracy #empathy #generosity #philanthropy #altruism #housing #healthcare #food #water #education #humanrights #climatechange #adaptation
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FFS... in a kinder #world most of this #foreign direct #investment would be happening in the #poorest parts of the world.
#development #democracy #empathy #generosity #philanthropy #altruism #housing #healthcare #food #water #education #humanrights #climatechange #adaptation
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FFS... in a kinder #world most of this #foreign direct #investment would be happening in the #poorest parts of the world.
#development #democracy #empathy #generosity #philanthropy #altruism #housing #healthcare #food #water #education #humanrights #climatechange #adaptation
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FFS... in a kinder #world most of this #foreign direct #investment would be happening in the #poorest parts of the world.
#development #democracy #empathy #generosity #philanthropy #altruism #housing #healthcare #food #water #education #humanrights #climatechange #adaptation
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FFS... in a kinder #world most of this #foreign direct #investment would be happening in the #poorest parts of the world.
#development #democracy #empathy #generosity #philanthropy #altruism #housing #healthcare #food #water #education #humanrights #climatechange #adaptation
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"In 2007, his work found a #global audience with “The Bottom Billion,” an analysis of why the #world’s #poorest #economies were diverging from, rather than catching up with, more prosperous ones. Last year, he published “Left Behind,” which he summarized to me as “a diagnosis of the same bloody problem for #poor places in #rich countries as for poor countries.”
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#UK’s #richest set to produce 13 times more transport #emissions than #poorest by 2035 | #CarbonFootprints | The Guardian
They found that the poorest groups were due to decarbonise much faster than the wealthiest, with the richest 4% set to emit 13 times more carbon from their domestic travel than the poorest 14%
by 2035 – up from a tenfold gap today.#Environment #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #Transport #FossilFuels #Inequality #Poverty
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With a new #executiveorder and model state legislation #criminalizing #homelessness, the #richest people in the #US. are making it easier to #lockup the #poorest.
https://prospect.org/justice/2025-08-11-when-sleeping-is-crime-homelessness/
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"people who have mever met a #hillbilly in their #life love to pin every bit of american #fascism and #imperialism on #hillbillies. who, it should be noted, are one of the #poorest #demographics in this #country. instead of the fucking #facsists. who are overwhelmingly #billionaires."
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"people who have mever met a #hillbilly in their #life love to pin every bit of american #fascism and #imperialism on #hillbillies. who, it should be noted, are one of the #poorest #demographics in this #country. instead of the fucking #facsists. who are overwhelmingly #billionaires."
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"people who have mever met a #hillbilly in their #life love to pin every bit of american #fascism and #imperialism on #hillbillies. who, it should be noted, are one of the #poorest #demographics in this #country. instead of the fucking #facsists. who are overwhelmingly #billionaires."
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"people who have mever met a #hillbilly in their #life love to pin every bit of american #fascism and #imperialism on #hillbillies. who, it should be noted, are one of the #poorest #demographics in this #country. instead of the fucking #facsists. who are overwhelmingly #billionaires."
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"people who have mever met a #hillbilly in their #life love to pin every bit of american #fascism and #imperialism on #hillbillies. who, it should be noted, are one of the #poorest #demographics in this #country. instead of the fucking #facsists. who are overwhelmingly #billionaires."
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The most #educated #generation is the #poorest
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The bill also would #penalize #states that expand #Medicaid in the future.
Johnson also expanded a #deduction break for #state & #local #tax payments, a priority for a handful of centrist #Republicans who represent high-tax states like New York & California.
#Democrats blasted the bill as disproportionately benefiting the #wealthy while cutting #benefits for working Americans. CBO found it would reduce #income for the #poorest 10% of US households & boost income for the top 10%.
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“So there’s a sense that #tariffs will tend to hit the #poorest in society harder than the #richest, which, generally, is the opposite of what you want in trying to create an equitable #system.” fivebooks.com/best-books/t... #books #bestbooks #economics
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#SlotMachine firms target #UK’s #poorest areas and channel funds to #billionaires | #Gambling | The Guardian
An insidious way of effectively draining poor people of money, the ones who can least afford it, of course.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/may/18/slot-machine-firms-uk-poorest-areas-andy-burnham
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#Trump braging about helping his billionaire buddies with #tariff #reversal , to the detriment of millions of the #poorest #americans
How can americans bear this asshole ?
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#Tax #Fights (only) for the (already) #rich and #wealthy
#Fund #cuts for the #weak and #poorest
#Justice according the #Trump and #Heilon #Musk
A certain idea of #democracy : only for the #strong as cruel as the hash law of nature. Not an inch of human evolution
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGOJ7rosVO1/?igsh=eXM4NzEyM2x4ZGkw
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#Tax #Fights (only) for the (already) #rich and #wealthy
#Fund #cuts for the #weak and #poorest
#Justice according the #Trump and #Heilon #Musk
A certain idea of #democracy : only for the #strong as cruel as the hash law of nature. Not an inch of human evolution
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGOJ7rosVO1/?igsh=eXM4NzEyM2x4ZGkw
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#Tax #Fights (only) for the (already) #rich and #wealthy #Fund #cuts for the #weak and #poorest #Justice according the #Trump and #Heilon #Musk A certain idea of #democracy : only for the #strong as cruel as the hash law of nature. Not an inch of human evolution www.instagram.com/reel/DGOJ7ro...
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#Tax #Fights (only) for the (already) #rich and #wealthy #Fund #cuts for the #weak and #poorest #Justice according the #Trump and #Heilon #Musk A certain idea of #democracy : only for the #strong as cruel as the hash law of nature. Not an inch of human evolution www.instagram.com/reel/DGOJ7ro...
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How #America’s #wealth map has changed
The #wealthiest cities in the #US. are almost seven times #richer than the #poorest regions, a disparity that has nearly doubled since 1960.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91262157/americas-wealth-map-changed
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As a child, Mathew Desmond experienced poverty firsthand.
He saw his family home repossessed and endured the stresses and humiliations of his family’s lack of means.
It raised the question that he would go on to dedicate his professional life to answering:
❓Why is there such stark #inequality in America?❓
The hard truth, he said, is that
💥so many of us benefit from it.💥Desmond shared a litany of statistics illustrating the growing burden of poverty and inequality in the United States:
• 1 in 3 families live in a household that has an income of $55,000 a year or less.
• 38 million people are below the federal poverty level of $30,000 for a family of four.
• Evictions have increased by 22% since the turn of the century.
• The number of public-school kids who are unhoused has increased by 74% since the turn of century.
• The amount of inflation-adjusted, non-mortgage debt has increased by more than 200% -- and the number of families reporting no income apart from food stamps has quadrupled since the 2008 recession.
• Since 1985, rent increases have outpaced wage growth by 325%.
• Each year, people are charged $11 billion in overdraft fees and $10 billion in payday loan fees.“So, here's one reason there's so much poverty in America today:
because the poor are #exploited,”
said Desmond, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Evicted" and his more recent work "Poverty, by America".“I think it's a word we should use more.”
👉The exploitation is perpetuated, not only by the corporations, financial institutions, and landlords who withhold fair wages, charge exorbitant fees, and profit off those in poverty,
👉but also by affluent Americans who benefit from the exploitation, he said.Desmond quoted an analogy from novelist Tommy Orange,
“Kids are jumping out the windows of burning buildings, falling to their deaths. And we think the problem is that they’re jumping.”
🔥The American approach to poverty has often been to focus on those who are poor and what they can do to uplift themselves -- rather than changing the systems that keep them poor.
This can be uncomfortable for those whose #property #values are protected by ⚠️segregation of affordable housing,
those who have invested in the #stock #market and make money when ⚠️exploitative corporations net profits,
and those with #free #checking #accounts that are ⚠️subsidized by the poor who pay fees for their lack of capital, he explained.The affluent also benefit from government subsidies more than the poor, he said.
According to Desmond, the #wealthiest families in the United States receive an average of about 🔷$35,000 annually in tax benefits, while the #poorest get an average of ♦️$25,000 in subsidies.
These are realized in #mortgage #incentives, special #investment #accounts, like #529 accounts that help pay for college, and other #tax #breaks for the wealthy.
Many affluent families further contribute to poverty by building communities that exclude and marginalize the poor
— pushing them out of their neighborhoods using #zoning ordinances, Desmond saidhttps://www.aamc.org/news/we-can-solve-poverty-america-we-just-don-t-want
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This graphic from the #BBC is telling. It shows the percentage that various income groups in the #UK pay in #tax. What can’t be overlooked is how much the #poorest end up paying as a percentage of their #income. So while the richest can boast how much they are contributing in absolute terms to government services, the poor are paying nearly as much as a percentage of their already meagre spending power.
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This study reveals that #US #wealth #inequality, at historic highs, creates large #health inequality: a #lifespan difference of 13 years between the #richest and #poorest. Rectifying these #economic differences would raise overall #longevity to levels achieved in other #wealthy countries.
https://healthjusticemonitor.org/2024/02/01/wealth-inequality-drives-health-inequality/
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#States #rethink #Medicaid #enrollment efforts as #millions lose #coverage
The largest-ever #purge of the nation's #Medicaid #rolls has exposed #majorcracks in the #system for #covering the #poorest #Americans — and is prompting some states to rethink how they #connect #vulnerable #residents to #benefits they're entitled to receive.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Poverty #Health #Healthcare
https://www.axios.com/2023/11/20/medicaid-coverage-loss-explained -
"The #richest 1% of the world’s population are responsible for as much #carbon #pollution as the people who make up the #poorest two-thirds of humanity. They have stolen our planet’s #resources to fuel their lavish lifestyles. A short trip on a private jet will produce more carbon than the average person emits all year. They are sacrificing us at the altar of their greed." — Greta Thunberg.
#ClimateCrisis #Inequality
Climate Equalty: A Planet for the 99%, #Oxfam report:
https://policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/climate-equality-a-planet-for-the-99-621551/ -
Despite the fact that #MikeJohnson is opposed to both #SocialSecurity & #Medicare / #Medicaid, he represents one of the #poorest congressional districts in the nation. Acc/to an analysis of U.S. #Census data by the Center for American Progress, >160k people in #Louisiana’s 4th Congressional District were living in #poverty in 2022. That’s about 22% of all district residents.
#Congress #House #Speaker #HouseRepublicans #Republicans #GOP #ChaosCaucus #ConspiracyTheories #Extremism #MAGA
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How any of Sanders’ edicts actually help her constituents is unknown. #Arkansas is the fourth #poorest state in the nation, with a mounting affordable #housingCrisis and massive #food #insecurity. A recent Scholaroo survey found the state ranks 49th in the nation for quality of life and 50th in the nation for quality of health.
Rather than fix those problems, Sanders wants to hide her movements from public view.
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Why are the Tories trying to hide energy bill misery for those who use the least? | Vox Political
https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2023/08/25/why-are-the-tories-trying-to-hide-energy-bill-misery-for-those-who-use-the-least/#energy #gas #electricity #Ofgem #price cap #bill #standing charge #Conservative #Tory #Tories #policy #poorest #increase #
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CW: Climate "p o r n"
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https://t.co/tOJjOEvfqm #brexit added almost £6bn to UK #food #bills in the two years to the end of 2021, affecting #poorest #households the most, research has found.
The cost of food #imported from the #EU shot up because of extra #red #tape, adding £210 to the average household food bills over 2020 and 2021, London School of Economics (LSE) researchers discovered.
