COVID-19 has increased poverty levels and deepened income, ethnic, gender, geographic inequalities. So what? Will the crisis trigger new, more progressive systems of taxation and redistribution e.g. Universal Basic Income?…
Income
The UN agency estimates it would cost US$ 199 billion per month to provide a time-bound, guaranteed basic income to the 2.7 billion people living below or just above the poverty line in 132 developing countries.
Around 52,000 people in the city of Maricá in suburban Rio de Janeiro will receive a monthly stipend of 130 reais (£24), just under the national poverty line, as part…
Deborah Frieze, co-founder of the Boston Impact Initiative is using a unique model, to help address economic inequality through equitable access to capital and opportunity. The Boston Impact Initiative Fund aims to…
Ikea plans to make furniture from waste straw to offer farmers an alternative to the practice of crop burning, which contributes significantly to air pollution in northern India. The first prototype,…
Singles day, or “Guanggun Jie”, is a Chinese holiday celebrating pride in being single. In the past couple of decades, the November 11th celebration has become China’s biggest shopping day…
As of July 16th, more than 27 railway stations in China are offering on-demand food delivery to passengers passing through on high-speed trains. The service, offered via an official website…
Sandjar K on Twitter When people talk about the future of retirement, this is what I imagine. | Many older Americans are living a desperate, nomadic life https://t.co/s9Bgju5Pix #signalofchange
In a bid to tackle this extreme divide between rich and poor, South Africa’s government has proposed to implement a minimum wage for the first time. The 20-rand-an-hour ($1.40 roughly),…
“On Monday, the women of France are planning to walk out of their jobs at 4:34 p.m., a symbolic hour that represents the gender pay gap in their country. According to the Guardian, the protest’s…
The Dutch city of Utrecht plans to trial an unconditional payment to the unemployed, with no requirement to find work. The move is part of an attempt to simplify complex…
