New York City's Mayor Zohran Mamdani has urged state regulators to block Western Union's proposed $500 million acquisition of International Money Express, arguing that it could lead to higher fees and worse service for immigrants relying on remittances to send money abroad, which are crucial for their financial well-being. #Immigration #Remittances #EconomicJustice #US #LA
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has urged regulators to block Western Union's proposed $500 million acquisition of International Money Express, arguing that the deal could raise costs and negatively impact services for immigrants sending money abroad, which is crucial for their financial support. #ImmigrantSupport #Remittances #EconomicJustice #US #LAT #
New York City's Mayor Zohran Mamdani has urged state regulators to block Western Union's proposed $500 million acquisition of International Money Express, arguing it could lead to higher fees and worse services for immigrants who rely on remittances to send money abroad. #ImmigrantSupport #Remittances #EconomicJustice #US #LA
Our Western societies are experienced by two revolts, one economic that affects the working classes and the other identity-based. The success of this double revolt depends on the existence of a common embodiment for them. (Original: Nos sociétés occidentales sont traversées de deux révoltes, l’une économique qui touche les classes populaires et l’autre identitaire. Le succès de cette double révolte dépend de l’existence d’une incarnation qui leur soit commune.) #SocialRevolution #EconomicJustice #IdentityPolitics #US #CA #GB #FR #DE
70 dead at work. 70 lives broken since the beginning of the year. Is this the ambition we have for France? Is this the acceptable cost of our economic activity? Behind these cold numbers, there are first names, faces, families that we plunge into a (Original: 70 morts au travail. 70 vies brisées depuis le début de l’année. Est-ce là l’ambition que nous portons pour la France ? Est-ce là le prix acceptable de notre activité économique ? Derrière ces chiffres froids, il y a des prénoms, des visages, des familles que l'on plonge dans un) #WorkersRights #WorkplaceSafety #EconomicJustice #FR
Elected officials and transit advocates in New York City are advocating for an expansion of the underutilized Fair Fares program, which offers discounted public transit fares to low-income residents, rather than pursuing Mayor Mamdani's controversial plan to make city buses free for all, as the current application process for Fair Fares limits access for many eligible individuals. #PublicTransit #EconomicJustice #AffordableTransportation #US
Jochen Ott, the leading candidate of the North Rhine-Westphalia SPD, has called for a debate on the unequal distribution of wealth in Germany, highlighting that a significant majority of the population views this disparity as unjust and supports tax reforms to address it, including a return to wealth taxes and an increase in inheritance taxes, while criticizing the burden placed on working families amid rising wealth among the wealthy. #WealthInequality #EconomicJustice #TaxReform #DE
