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2612 - World news | The Guardian: "Covid pandemic made poorest co…" - disabled.social
Covid pandemic made poorest countries even worse off, World Bank warns https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/15/covid-pandemic-made-poorest-countries-even-worse-off-world-bank-warns #DepartmentforInternationalDevelopment(DfID) #Globaldevelopment #Incomeinequality #Globaleconomy #Foodsecurity #Foodpoverty #AsiaPacific #Debtrelief #Inequality #WorldBank #Economics #Worldnews #Business #Society #Poverty #Africa
2668 - Robert Sanscartier: "Why Africa must resist Western…" - disabled.social
Why Africa must resist Western climate hypocrisy Last year, global warming reached its worst levels, recording 1.2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. In the same year, the world witnessed record-breaking multibillion dollar deals in energy sector especially in the global North. Global oil and gas mergers and acquisitions activity topped $350 billion in 2023, outpacing the 2022’s total by 83 percent, the highest level in the past five years https://www.observer.ug/index.php/viewpo...
3510 - Black Women Entrepreneurs Need Capital And A Call To Action To Get It
3856 - Lisa Kalayji: ""UPS announced this week that …" - disabled.social
UPS announced this week that they will be laying off 12,000 people, approximately 2.4 percent of their global workforce... As you may recall, UPS drivers won a hard fought battle earlier this year for higher wages and less batshit working conditions so they don’t die of heat stroke. Is the company truly suffering? Well, no. It still had an adjusted operating profit of $9.9 billion... they “returned $7.6 billion of cash to shareowners through dividends and share buybacks. At the same time t...
4811 - Racism Killed My Father, Don’t Let It Kill You Too
He was the only one of his nine siblings who never escaped poverty. The difference? His brothers and sisters returned to Ecuador They became doctors, lawyers, judges He stayed in the U.S Where his accent His name His skin made him invisible. Disposable. This country crushed him slowly Denied him opportunities because of "broken English" Fed him the lie that struggling was his own fault
7833 - Call me a conspiracy theorist, but it is strange the Daily Mail, owned by an aristocrat, would publish an article about disabled people "faking for attention" at the same time, due to negligence of...
9623 - üö® NEW PAPER, which @j_kalla & I have been working on for 5 years(!): https://osf.io/jrw26/ To understand impacts of partisan media on beliefs & attitudes, we paid regular Fox News viewers to wat...
10477 - Global inequality is not a hierarchy of ability or merit. It is a hierarchy of brutality and exploitation.
10683 - Matt Gray: "Nice to see that everyone is r…" - disabled.social
Nice to see that everyone is referring to the new pope by his chosen name.
🏳️⚧️ Do the same for trans people! 🏳️⚧️
