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Inflated land prices blocking government from building enough homes to hit targets and meet need

23/11/2024 - Leave a Comment

A price premium for landowners is artificially inflating land prices and blocking the government from building the social homes needed to ease the housing crisis and meet its own housebuilding …

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Extreme weather is making life harder for Vietnam’s delivery riders

16/11/202416/11/2024 - Leave a Comment

Just this month, northern Vietnam has been hit by super typhoon Yagi, the strongest in decades. Earlier this year, Ho Chi Minh City residents experienced the longest heat wave in three decades. …

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Firm behind £4m Labour Party donation invested in weapons for Israel

17/10/2024 - Leave a Comment

The Labour Party’s largest-ever donation came from a hedge fund that stood to profit from Israel’s war in Gaza, openDemocracy can reveal. Quadrature Capital held $121m worth of shares in …

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Labour given £4m from tax haven-based hedge fund with shares in oil and arms

20/09/202428/09/2024 - Leave a Comment

The Labour Party’s largest-ever donation came from a Cayman Islands-registered hedge fund with shares worth hundreds of millions of pounds in fossil fuels, private health firms, arms manufacturers and asset …

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Japan bets on tech, immigration as labor crisis worsens

10/02/2024 - Leave a Comment

The first sectors to feel the pinch of worker shortages were nursing and elderly care. The problem soon spread to construction and delivery businesses, followed by taxi firms, forestry companies …

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Time of your life

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Having free time need not require great wealth – Guy Standing’s The Politics of Time explains why work is overvalued. Review by Alex Kozul-Wright. The Politics of Time is not …

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A Hidden System of Exploitation Underpins US Hospitals’ Employment of Foreign Nurses

03/11/2023 - Leave a Comment

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — When Rachel started her job as a nurse in the internal medicine unit at Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare last year, it felt like the realization of a dream …

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Revealed: Labour taking free staff from scandal-hit consulting firms

09/06/2023 - Leave a Comment

Labour went cap-in-hand to two scandal-hit consultancy firms that its own shadow chancellor said should be broken up, openDemocracy can reveal. The party has quietly accepted more than £230,000 worth …

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‘iPhones are made in hell’: 3 months inside China’s iPhone city

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Chinese factory laborers call jobs like Hunter’s “working the screws.” Until recently, the 34-year-old worked on the iPhone 14 Pro assembly line at a Foxconn factory in the central Chinese …

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UK only major economy hiking taxes on working people during cost-of-living crunch

18/03/2022 - Leave a Comment

The UK is the only major world economy to raise taxes on working people in response to the cost-of-living crisis, new research has revealed. Labour has called on Rishi Sunak …

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