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Since Pramila Buhl was elected to her local ward council in far western Nepal, she has earned the support of her constituents ...
Where working families have opportunities to thrive—and where they struggle to survive. Oxfam’s Best States to Work index shines a light on the best and worst states for working families in 2025. In ...
The Best States to Work Index, now in its seventh edition, is an index of 27 policies across three themes - wages, worker protections, and rights to organize - for all 50 states, the District of ...
Despite recent tariff-related market turmoil, the 10 richest U.S. billionaires saw their wealth increase by $365 billion over the past 12 months. It would take 726,000 years for 10 U.S. workers with ...
In reaction to reports that President Trump is moving to dismantle USAID as its website has gone down, Oxfam America President & CEO Abby Maxman, said: “Dismantling USAID would be a callous, ...
Irregular rainfall and drought in Mali has significantly reduced Satou Coulibaly’s millet and groundnut harvest in recent years. “It's getting harder and harder to get enough to eat," she says.
Oxfam predicts there will be at least five trillionaires a decade from now. 204 new billionaires were minted in 2024, nearly four every week. Oxfam estimates sixty percent of billionaire wealth is now ...
Policymakers should embrace proven solutions—baby bonds, a federal jobs guarantee, and a guaranteed income—that can help reduce poverty and inequality, advance racial and gender justice, and support ...
The level of economic inequality in the city of Santiago in Brazil is evident along the border of a high-density, low-income favela neighborhood next to high-rise ...
Digital technologies have the potential to either ameliorate or worsen the dynamics underlying poverty and inequality, depending on how those technologies are designed, developed, deployed, and used, ...
The Best States to Work Index, now in its sixth edition, is an index of 27 policies across three themes - wages, worker protections, and rights to organize - for all 50 states, the District of ...
Oxfam America and Prosperity Now have embarked on a comprehensive joint research project to explore the dynamics of women’s paid and unpaid labor in the US, particularly for women of color, who are ...