Now is the time for democratic nations to collude on implementing serious tax reforms and wealth taxes,. Let the rich move to the fascist USA or Russia if they don't like social democracy taxes.
Anyone know of a similar analysis of tax-free millionaires in Canada?
https://www.europesays.com/1993056/ April 13-19: Black Maternal Health Week #access #america #april #BlackMaternalHealthWeek #BlackWoman #CollectiveAction #disparity #EconomicStatus #EducationLevel #Entertainment #health #lack #MaternalHealthOutcome #MayorChokweAntarLumumba #Mississippi #QualityHealthCare #sports #Theme #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USA #year
Lets make this one of the top election issues. It might even finally get youth out if there's a wealth tax.
Harmful Dust From Drying Lakes - Preserving Great Salt Lake (USA) Water Levels Decreases Ambient Dust And Racial Disparities In Population Exposure
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https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(24)00249-5 <-- shared technical article
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[similar to the public health impacts and challenges faced by communities around the dying Salton Sea, amongst others...]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #pollution #dust #toxic #exposure #wind #publichealth #water #drought #GreatSaltLake #Utah #water #surfacewater #watersupply #climatechange #demographics #community #atrisk #minorities #income #disparity #humanhealth #mitigation #policy #planning #loss #drying #lake #terminallakes #inlandseas #ecology #habitat #lakebed #humanimpacts #mining #wateruse #overuse #desiccation #socialdisparity #incomedisparity #particulates
7 in 10 Americans think Supreme Court justices put ideology over impartiality: AP-NORC poll
> Only about 3 in 10 U.S. adults think justices are more likely to provide an independent check on other branches of government [or, implicitly, to defer to them under any circumstance in which deference is called for] by being fair and impartial, poll shows.
US maternal mortality rate far higher than in peer nations, report finds
The US has a far higher rate of #maternal #mortality than other peer wealthy nations,
and an extraordinary #disparity between white and Black Americans, according to a new brief released by the Commonwealth Fund.
The American outlier status persisted even as the maternal mortality rate has improved in the post-pandemic era, both in the US and globally.
“We could always be happy for going in the right direction, that’s for sure,” said Munira Z Gunja, senior researcher at the Commonwealth Fund’s international program in health policy and practice innovations. “But we still have a ways to go.”
The Commonwealth Fund report compares the US with 12 wealthy nations using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, better known as the OECD, a group of developed democracies.
Although OECD data is considered the gold standard for international comparison, researchers said there may be differences in how countries gather data.
Researchers found that in 
2022, 22.3 US women per 100,000 died either during pregnancy or within a year of giving birth.
That is a slight improvement from 2021, when American women died at a rate of 32.9 per 100,000.
Still, alarming disparities persist, particularly between white and Black mothers. White mothers in America died at a rate of 19 per 100,000 in 2022. By contrast, Black mothers died at a rate of 49.5 per 100,000, or roughly 2.5 times the rate of white Americans.
Nearly every demographic group of American mothers dies at a higher rate than all mothers in peer nations.
Norway, for instance, did not document a single maternal death. The United Kingdom, which conducts an in-depth investigation into every death, counted 5.5 maternal deaths per 100,000.
Notably, most of the deaths of American mothers
– more than 80%
– are #preventable, according to CDC data cited by the Commonwealth report.
Today is an international day to celebrate the solidarity of workers in a world run by owners.
The revolution is happening, right now, all around us. It feels slow. The oligarchs are taking off their masks and more openly squashing and grabbing. I think it's a sign of both confidence because of the increasing disparity, and fear because of the popular acceptance of guillotine jokes.
Today, Oxfam points out that stock dividend payouts since 2020 increased fourteen (yes 14) times more than wages, globally. 'Follow the money' to understand the economy.
We haven't reached phase shift yet. We are everywhere and steadily building towards that key 9% unity or whatever it is that we need in the way of global consensus.
I just keep thinking about how truth is stranger than fiction. It will be surprising.
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#mayday #labor #labour #workers #revolution #disparity #anarchy #communism #capitalism #justice
How economic inequality harms societies | Richard Wilkinson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ7LzE3u7Bw&ab_channel=TED
We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effects on health, lifespan, even such basic values as trust.
Effects of The Spanish Inquisition Can Still Be Seen in US Hispanic Healthcare
https://www.sciencealert.com/effects-of-the-spanish-inquisition-can-still-be-seen-in-us-hispanic-healthcare US #healthcare #SpanishInquisition #LatinAmerica #disparity #inequity #medicine
The great carbon divide: Richest 1% account for more carbon emissions than poorest 66%, report says
‘Polluter elite’ are plundering the planet to point of destruction, says Oxfam after comprehensive study of climate inequality
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/20/richest-1-account-for-more-carbon-emissions-than-poorest-66-report-says
#climatechange #carbonemissions #rich #disparity #inequality #Cop28
@alxd @BrightFlame @SolarpunkPrompts @tomasino Yes, I guess my #solarpunk related point is that whatever we design in the future, is going to be integrated into the ancient past that persists. Maybe it's another era to consider? But what to keep and what to toss is a question both zoological and philosophical, as we deal with our place in #ecology.
While trying to avoid reductionism, I think that any successful redesign of community living will incorporate elements that are typical and familiar for hominids in general.
Troupe animals are more comfortable in troupe-sized groups, for instance. We can manage conflict without specialized job descriptions or one-size-fits-all rules if we weave justice and fairness more thoroughly through cultural norms: #indigenous. We can regulate our schedules to closer match the abundance of free time that our ancestors had for 95% of our existence: #UBI #freetime. We can acknowledge and honour the typical primate resistance to economic #disparity, and so forth.
The surface #urban #heat island #disparity explorer #app has been updated.
In most #US #urban areas, #satellite-derived surface #temperature is higher in #census tracts with #poorer and more non-white residents. Explore #data here: https://datadrivenlab.users.earthengine.app/view/usuhiapp
Also #30DayMapChallenge Day 20: #favorite app that I (Barkley & Xuewei also helped) have made in terms of consistent storytelling.
#Paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2020.07.021 [Public link: https://tc25.github.io/Papers/ISPRS_2020.pdf]
Greg Cocks 
