What if we all got paid the same? Vanessa Baird on a simple but bold measure to reverse roaring income inequality.
Vanessa Baird imagines turning the tide on wage inequality.
Everybody’s talking about the harms of extreme economic inequality. Politicians and charities lament the impacts on health and welfare. Global business and political elites focus on the risk to security and, even, economic growth. Media and religious commentators baulk at how just 28 billionaires own as much as the combined wealth of the poorest half of the world.
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