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AWhy Poverty Reduction Under Capitalism is a Mythugust 27, 2024

Why Poverty Reduction Under Capitalism is a Myth

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“Shit Life Syndrome”: the criminalisation of poverty – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Reduce the ability for those with the most to avoid paying taxes, measures like income sharing, tax deductibility for car use and so many other loopholes which exist to minimise paying taxes.

Source: “Shit Life Syndrome”: the criminalisation of poverty – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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The Everyday Workers of Hollywood’s Historic Double Strike Need You to Know Some Things – Mother Jones

You’ve probably recognized some of the celebrities at the picket line. Jason Sudeikis, Hillary Duff, Kevin Bacon, Bill Nye. These actors, similar to writers on strike, are demanding increased pay and protections from artificial intelligence. But the vast majority of striking members are far from household names, actors who are all but certain to survive the major economic consequences of both strikes as they drag on for weeks or even months. Instead, they’re working-class individuals forced to live “paycheck to paycheck,” according to SAG LA’s Vice President Michelle Hurd—and they want the world to know a few facts.

Source: The Everyday Workers of Hollywood’s Historic Double Strike Need You to Know Some Things – Mother Jones

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UN Report Finds 165 Million Were Pushed Into Poverty Over Past Three Years

165 million people in poverty

 

The United Nations Development Program is calling for a pause in debt repayments to allow economies to mitigate shocks like pandemics and climate chaos. Brett Wilkins Jul 14, 2023 7

Source: UN Report Finds 165 Million Were Pushed Into Poverty Over Past Three Years

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How to Eradicate Poverty

It will be difficult for the Chinese path to socialist modernisation to be seen as a model to be adopted by other countries unless these countries also ground their programmes on a socialist footing. Poverty was not eradicated by cash transfer schemes or by rural medical programmes alone, though these are valuable policy options: it was eradicated by a socialist commitment to ideas such as dignity and realize them in the world.

Source: How to Eradicate Poverty

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New Study in One of the ‘Most Miserable’ US Cities Shows the Amazing Effects of a Guaranteed Income | The Smirking Chimp

An ongoing study conducted in Stockton, California, examines how the lives of low-income Americans can improve if they are simply given money—a modest, but reliable source of income with no strings attached. The Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration (SEED) randomly chose 125 participants from poverty-stricken residential areas and gave them $500 per month to simply use for whatever they wanted over the last two years. A majority of the participants were women (69 percent) and people of color (53 percent). Preliminary results from the first year are tantalizing for anyone interested in solutions to address rising inequality in the United States, especially as they manifest along racial and gender lines. Within the first year, the study’s participants obtained jobs at twice the rate of the control group. At the beginning of the study, 28 percent of the participants had full-time employment, and after the first year, that number rose to 40 percent.

But read to see what happened later

New Study in One of the ‘Most Miserable’ US Cities Shows the Amazing Effects of a Guaranteed Income | The Smirking Chimp
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Here’s our money, now let them go. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

It’s 2019 and Western Australia is still locking up people for not paying fines. Of course this abhorrent policy barely affects the rich, or the well-employed, or those with financial security. It doesn’t affect those who have access to money, or for whom a $500 – $1000 slap on the wrist is just a matter of flashing the credit card or at worst, waiting until payday. No, it punishes people for being poor, for which $500+ becomes an unmanageable percentage of their income/benefit. And before long, that slap on the wrist becomes a prison sentence.

But in the meantime, Australians who are appalled at the gross injustice of jailing people who have committed no crimes are stepping up. While Attorney-General Quigley hides behind bureaucracy, Debbie Kilroy, Executive Director of Sisters Inside, an organization which advocates for the human rights of women in the criminal justice system, has started a GoFundMe fundraiser with the aim to free 100 single Aboriginal mothers from Western Australian prisons.

It has raised over $87,000 in just two days.

This money has already been used to save a single Noongar woman, a mother of three children, from being imprisoned. The accumulated debt of $3100 came from traffic infringements and having an unregistered dog.

Attorney-General Quigley can put a stop to this draconian policy. He can put forward legislation immediately to end the discriminatory practice of jailing people for being poor. He can cease this barbaric action against the most vulnerable in the community. And he must do it now, before another family is torn apart and separated, by imprisonment, or death.

Here’s our money, now let them go. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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The Crime of Being Poor and Black

 

NEWARK, N.J.—This is the story of Emmanuel Mervilus, who got locked up for a crime he did not commit, whose life was derailed and nearly destroyed by the experience and who will graduate this spring from Rutgers University. It is a story of being a poor black man in America, with the exception being that most poor black men never get a second chance.

via The Crime of Being Poor and Black

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When industries come first, people die – » The Australian Independent Media Network

As we watch the ridiculous debate about coal unfold again, driven by the resources and manufacturing industries with nary a mention of the economic and social cost of climate change and pollution, governments around the world collude with another industry to cause even greater immediate harm and the death and displacement of millions of people.

In 2016, total world military spending was $1.69 trillion. Sales of arms and military services across the world totalled $374.8 billion.

via When industries come first, people die – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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DUNCAN STORRAR: The insidious consequences of disability pension cuts

via DUNCAN STORRAR: The insidious consequences of disability pension cuts

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Sly groggers ‘distracting police with fake reports’ to get booze into dry Queensland communities, researchers find – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Smugglers are making fake reports of suicides and car accidents to tie up police resources and get around alcohol restrictions, a study finds.

Source: Sly groggers ‘distracting police with fake reports’ to get booze into dry Queensland communities, researchers find – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)