Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Tag: pandemic wealth

‘Unseemly’ $1.1 trillion billionaire wealth gain during pandemic could fully fund...

"This is why we need the fair-share taxes program Joe Biden ran on, won on, and is now ready to pursue."

‘Abolish billionaires’: Oxfam report shows combined pandemic wealth of richest 10...

“Rigged economies are funnelling wealth to a rich elite who are riding out the pandemic in luxury, while those on the frontline of the pandemic... are struggling to pay the bills and put food on the table.”

Inequality virus: Pandemic widens wealth gap for women, people of color...

“In every country that we looked at, inequality has gotten worse during the pandemic.”

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Why capitalism relies on nature and care work it does not pay for

Modern economies depend on unpriced ecosystem functions and undervalued care and reproductive labor—essential inputs that are difficult to commodify. This tension helps explain environmental degradation, social strain, and the limits of market systems.

The US-Israeli war on Iran is illegal. Here’s why that matters.

If this war continues without accountability, it threatens even more dire consequences in years ahead.

Does not our ongoing, epic failure to obstruct immorality confirm America as an immoral...

What morally deficient country tolerates blatant wickedness without rising up to avert the next outrage? His re-election was bad enough; tolerance of evil is worse.

Nicotine-based vaping likely causes lung, oral cancers, new comprehensive review

The review noted that the aerosols exhibit nearly all ten "key characteristics of carcinogens" identified by the World Health Organization.

‘Product of USA’ becomes a real standard enforced by USDA

The new standard, finalized in March 2024 and fully enforceable since the start of 2026, closes this gap and practice that often misled consumers who believed they were supporting American ranchers.