US SPENT 7.5 TIMES MORE ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS THAN VACCINE DONATIONS
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If You Think Vaccine Mandate Pushback Is Bad…
At some point, governments will start using more sticks than carrots to break our deadly dependence on fossil fuels. How will humanity respond?
Why Are Moderna’s Billionaires Airbrushing Scientists Out of the Vaccine Patent Picture?
Why else? They want more billions.
US Could Fund Vaccines for the Whole World by Taxing Billionaires’ COVID-Era Profits
A one-time 99% tax on billionaires’ massive pandemic wealth gains would raise enough revenue to pay for coronavirus vaccines for every adult on Earth — and provide each of the […]
Biden backs waiving vaccine patents. Is climate tech next?
The Biden administration earlier this month sent shock waves through the pharmaceutical industry when it expressed support for waiving COVID-19 vaccine patent protections. … Read the full article at E&E […]
Can We Get a Vaccine for the Greed Pandemic?
The avarice virus escaped decades ago from corporate boardrooms. We can beat it.
As Rich Nations Protect Corporate Patents, the Global Vaccine Divide is Widening
People in high-income countries represent 16 percent of the world’s population, but have received 56 percent of COVID-19 vaccine doses.
U.S. Taxpayer Dollars Should Support Vaccine Equality, Not Vaccine Apartheid
Let’s spend less on supporting vaccine apartheid abroad, and more on ending it at home.
The Rain on Our Yes-We-Now-Have-a-Vaccine! Parade
What could be better than a drug that can stop COVID? A society that doesn’t let someone make billions off a drug millions can’t access.
The Inefficient and Incredibly Lucrative Chase for a Coronavirus Vaccine
Our hottest biotech firm hasn’t yet manufactured an antidote to COVID-19. Still, the company has manufactured three billionaires.
Poverty spiked sharply in the U.S. in 2022 after having declined in 2021
SPM data shows a historically steep increase of 4.6 percentage points from 7.8% to 12.4% . “The stark contrast paints a vivid picture of the ways in which poverty is a political choice, not a personal one.”
A Good Year’s Pay for a Good Day’s Work?
A Good Year’s Pay for a Good Day’s Work?
Report Reveals Top CEOs Dodge Taxes on Nearly $9 Billion in Retirement Funds
Some executives can expect to receive monthly retirement checks larger than their workers’ median annual pay.
Report: S&P 500 Executives Have Stashed Nearly $9 Billion in Special Tax-Deferred Compensation Plans Not Available to Ordinary Workers
At Walmart, Home Depot, and 20 other low-wage employers, executives have accumulated enough funds in these exclusive accounts to generate monthly retirement checks larger than their workers’ median annual pay.