Tax Justice Network | Without any public debate, EU countries have agreed to exempt US multinationals from most of the elements of the global minimum tax – when the tax dodging of those same US multinationals costs the bloc €14 billion in lost revenues each year. The loss is a significant underminin...
CNBC | The gap between the best and worse off Americans is growing — and economists don’t see an end in sight. The “K-shaped” economy has been top of mind for consumers, corporate leaders, policymakers and investors since the Covid pandemic drastically reshaped Americans’ financial habits almost six...
LSE Inequalities | Inequality has a profoundly negative effect on health and wellbeing, write Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett. Not because it suddenly kills, but because it slowly reshapes how people live, relate, cope, and age. Rather than behaving like a toxin that produces a sudden spike in mo...
The Guardian | Millions of graduates are trapped by ballooning debts, as their repayments are dwarfed by the interest added.
Source: The Guardian.
LSE Inequalities | Oxfam’s latest annual world inequality report documents how the world’s 3,000 or so billionaires increased their collective fortune by $2.5 trillion in 2025 – a sum that could eradicate extreme poverty 26 times over – while billions at the bottom end continue to go hungry. But be...
Oxfam | Billionaire fortunes have grown at a rate three times faster than the previous five years since the election of Donald Trump in November 2024. While US billionaires have seen the sharpest growth in their fortunes, billionaires in the rest of the world have also seen double digit increases. T...