You know #Iran does not trade with #Nato, right? #ThePersians trade🛢 in #Asia & countries that we see as #enemies plus the #poorest so-called "shithole" #countries. That's why #Putin & #Xi have that #brotherhood #Brotherly #LoveAndRespect for each other. If y'all wanna talk about #asian #bromance.

Remittances to India

The largest country in the #world by #population and one of the #poorest - #India - hammered by the #US
1. #tariffs up from ~3% to ~18%
2. high #fees on #legal #immigration; hurts #remittances
3. #iran #war raising #oil #gas prices; hurts remittances

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Access to #fertilizers may worsen for
some of the #poorest #countries - e.g. #Sudan #Somalia #Pakistan #Srilanka etc. - who are already reeling from all kinds of other major problems such as #drought #war #flood etc.

#climate #climatechange #iran #climatecrisis

Foreign Direct Investment Increased to a Record $41 Trillion India, Mexico, Brazil, and some other major emerging economies recorded strong growth, while the United States continued to extend its lead as the top destination for direct investment

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FFS... in a kinder #world most of this #foreign direct #investment would be happening in the #poorest parts of the world.

#development #democracy #empathy #generosity #philanthropy #housing #healthcare #food #water #education #humanrights #climatechange #adaptation

World’s richest 26 people hold same wealth as poorest 50% Report from Oxfam warns of widening gap as billionaire fortunes grow by the day

#World’s richest 26 #people hold same #wealth as #poorest 50% - @irishtimes.com Times: www.irishtimes.com/news/world/w...

Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%

Just 0.001% hold three times the #wealth of #poorest half of #humanity, report finds - #TheGuardian: www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

A Development Economist Returns to What He Left Behind Paul Collier spent decades studying the poorest countries on earth. Now he advises struggling towns in the place where he grew up.

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"In 2007, his work found a #global audience with “The Bottom Billion,” an analysis of why the #world’s #poorest #economies were diverging from, rather than catching up with, more prosperous ones.”

#humanrights #justice

The richest Americans live about as long as the poorest Europeans, study says Everyone knows that Europeans tend to live longer than Americans. But a new study has a surprising twist: Even the richest Americans only live about as long as the poorest western Europeans. Embargoed...

I can’t stop thinking about how the #richest #Americans #live as long as the #poorest #Europeans…. #Dumb is a form of #exceptionalism. I live in the dumbest #country. I’m too old and tired to help fix this kind of #stupid. I need to be a refugee.

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How much income would it take from the #richest 10% of people in the world, to match that of the #poorest 10%?
As the chart shows, it takes less than 2 cents out of every dollar. That's less than *one-fiftieth* of their income, or one week of income in a year #inequality #TaxTheRich

Art's parametric definition
I Asked Grok 4 The Same Question:

#IMHO artist's, authentic ones are dangerous because they are in most cases invited to all echelons of society
you just dont know who you are dealing with #billionaires look up to them and wanna be their #friends so also do the #poorest

Art's parametric definition
#IMHO artist's, authentic ones are dangerous motherfukkaz, because they are in most cases invited to all echelons of society
you just dont know who you are dealing with, #billionaires look up to them and wanna be their friends, so also do the #poorest

#tory #Labour #Libs

That fucking picture of #ThatAsshole surrounded by smilin' and thumbs-upping #cretins and #falseChristians celebrating taking away #healthcare from the #poorest whilst transferring wealth to the wealthiest makes me want to vomit.

#FUCKTHESEASSHOLES
#fakechristians
#falsepiety
#crueltyisthepoint

June 28, 2025 Last night just before midnight, Republicans released their new version of the omnibus budget reconciliation bill.

“The centerpiece of the bill remains its extension of the 2017 #taxcuts for #wealthy #Americans and #corporations, making those #tax cuts permanent. The tax structure in the measure funnels wealth from the #poorest Americans to the top 1%” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Trump’s tariff war and aid cuts threaten poorest nations’ recovery Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and t...

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Keir Starmer in 2016 Cutting Disability Benefits Is utterly morally indefensible Keir Starmer in 2025 Unveils Drastic Disability Benefit Cuts Same old Tory Lies from the Red Tories

#ToryShiteLiebour are excelling themselves at being #worse than the #Conservatives attacking the #poorest in #society, the #SickandDisabled, #Pensioners the #Homeless, #YoungPeople etc
Whilst pandering to #Reform & be the #richest 1% percent.
Let's just leave their utter hypocrisy here

#ToryShiteLiebour are excelling themselves at being #worse than the #Conservatives attacking the #poorest in #society, the #SickandDisabled, #Pensioners the #Homeless, #YoungPeople etc
Whilst pandering to #Reform & be the #richest 1% percent.
Let's just leave this here
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#ToryShiteLiebour are excelling themselves at being #worse than the #Conservatives attacking the #poorest in #society, the #SickandDisabled, #Pensioners the #Homeless, #YoungPeople etc
Whilst pandering to #Reform & be the #richest 1% percent.
Let's just leave this here
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#ToryShiteLiebour are excelling themselves at being #worse than the #Conservatives attacking the #poorest in #society, the #SickandDisabled, #Pensioners the #Homeless, #YoungPeople etc
Whilst pandering to #Reform & be the #richest 1% percent.
Let's just leave this here
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#ToryShiteLiebour are excelling themselves at being #worse than the #Conservatives attacking the #poorest in #society, the #SickandDisabled, #Pensioners the #Homeless, #YoungPeople etc
Whilst pandering to #Reform & be the #richest 1% percent.
Let's just leave this here
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#ToryShiteLiebour are excelling themselves at being #worse than the #Conservatives attacking the #poorest in #society, the #SickandDisabled, #Pensioners the #Homeless, #YoungPeople etc
Whilst pandering to #Reform & be the #richest 1% percent.
Let's just leave this here
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#ToryShiteLiebour are excelling themselves at being #worse than the #Conservatives attacking the #poorest in #society, the #SickandDisabled, #Pensioners the #Homeless, #YoungPeople etc
Whilst pandering to #Reform & be the #richest 1% percent.
Let's just leave this here
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#ToryShiteLiebour are excelling themselves at being #worse than the #Conservatives attacking the #poorest in #society, the #SickandDisabled, #Pensioners the #Homeless, #YoungPeople etc
Whilst pandering to #Reform & be the #richest 1% percent.
Let's just leave this here
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#ToryShiteLiebour are excelling themselves at being even #worse than the #Conservatives in attacking the #poorest members of #society, the #SickandDisabled, #Pensioners the #Homeless, #YoungPeople etc
Whilst pandering to #Reform & being easy on the #richest One% percent.
Let's just leave this here

ToryShiteLiebours utter hypocrisy Keir Starmer in 2016 Cutting Disability Benefits Is utterly morally indefensible Keir Starmer in 2025 Unveils Drastic Disability Benefit Cuts Same old Tory Lies from the Red Tories

#ToryShiteLiebour are excelling themselves at being even #worse than the #Conservatives in attacking the #poorest members of #society, the #SickandDisabled, #Pensioners the #Homeless, #YoungPeople etc
Whilst pandering to #Reform & being easy on the #richest One% percent.
Let's just leave this here

🍃🌹🌿@NZGreens #GreenBudget: Fully costed, & as promised in #TeTiriti o Waitangi, Aotearoa #NZ can be a place where everyone has what they need.

🍃💚🌿 You’ve got my vote! 💕Tax the #richest more & the #poorest less, & make everyone safer, healthier & happier! #nzpol
www.greens.org.nz/green_budget...

"The richest 1% will emit more #carbon in a year than the #poorest 50% will in a lifetime."

Trump to 2.9M of his voters: Bleep off, suckers You'll get nothing and like it, president says

#NorthCarolina #voted for #Trump in #2016, #2020, and #2024. #Red #States are the #dumbest, #poorest, most #disease-ridden, #racist #states who #mooch off of #Blue #States and flood them with #guns. I have #NO #Sympathy for any red states suffering from #disasters.

www.nj.com/politics/202...

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The bill also would #penalize #states that expand #Medicaid in the future.

Johnson also expanded a #deduction break for #state & #local #tax payments, a priority for a handful of centrist #Republicans who represent high-tax states like New York & California.

#Democrats blasted the bill as […]

Tariffs Donald Trump has famously said that tariff is a 'beautiful' word.  Most economists disagree. Here trade expert, Dmitry Grozoubinski, explains what tariffs are, what they have been, and can be, used to...

“So there’s a sense that #tariffs will tend to hit the #poorest in society harder than the #richest, which, generally, is the opposite of what you want in trying to create an equitable #system.” fivebooks.com/best-books/t... #books #bestbooks #economics

America’s Surprising Partisan Divide on Life Expectancy Centuries-old settlement patterns — and the attitudes they spawned about government — are to blame for differences in longevity between red southern states and bluer parts of the country.

Me being #stalked, #hated & #harassed, “I want you to live longer.”

Them with a shorter #lifespan, “Just owned a lib.”

people in the Left Coast's #poorest quartile of counties live 2.4 years longer than those in the #richest quartile counties in the Deep South #USA
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