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Italian Financial Exclusion: Regional Disparities and Stagnant Social Microcredit
A new report reveals that 1.3 million Italians lack bank accounts, with Southern Italy and low-income families disproportionately affected; although microcredit shows growth, social microcredit remains stagnant, highlighting regional inequalities and the need for policy intervention.
Italian Financial Exclusion: Regional Disparities and Stagnant Social Microcredit
A new report reveals that 1.3 million Italians lack bank accounts, with Southern Italy and low-income families disproportionately affected; although microcredit shows growth, social microcredit remains stagnant, highlighting regional inequalities and the need for policy intervention.
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48% Bias Score
US Economic Hardship Exacerbated by Anti-Immigrant Policies
Sixty percent of Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck amidst a crisis worsened by billions spent on immigration enforcement and cuts to social programs, creating an environment where corporations exploit undocumented workers while suppressing wages for all.
US Economic Hardship Exacerbated by Anti-Immigrant Policies
Sixty percent of Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck amidst a crisis worsened by billions spent on immigration enforcement and cuts to social programs, creating an environment where corporations exploit undocumented workers while suppressing wages for all.
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56% Bias Score
Waste Wars: Exposing the Global Inequalities of Waste Disposal
Alexander Clapp's "Waste Wars" exposes the global inequalities of waste disposal, detailing illegal dumping, dubious recycling practices, and the disproportionate impact on developing nations, using examples such as a plastic bag's journey from London to Turkey and highlighting the 2020 Nature repor...
Waste Wars: Exposing the Global Inequalities of Waste Disposal
Alexander Clapp's "Waste Wars" exposes the global inequalities of waste disposal, detailing illegal dumping, dubious recycling practices, and the disproportionate impact on developing nations, using examples such as a plastic bag's journey from London to Turkey and highlighting the 2020 Nature repor...
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44% Bias Score
Gelsenkirchen: Poverty, Populism, and the Fight for Revival
Gelsenkirchen, Germany's poorest city, grapples with 14% unemployment, €18,000 average yearly income, and the rise of the far-right AfD, despite community-led revitalization projects like the Nordsternpark and Kreativquartier Bochumer Strasse.
Gelsenkirchen: Poverty, Populism, and the Fight for Revival
Gelsenkirchen, Germany's poorest city, grapples with 14% unemployment, €18,000 average yearly income, and the rise of the far-right AfD, despite community-led revitalization projects like the Nordsternpark and Kreativquartier Bochumer Strasse.
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52% Bias Score
Resort Towns Face Acute Affordable Housing Crisis
The US faces a significant affordable housing shortage, most acutely felt in resort towns where high demand from second-home buyers and vacationers has priced out local workers; new developments like Rifle Apartments in Colorado aim to address this issue.
Resort Towns Face Acute Affordable Housing Crisis
The US faces a significant affordable housing shortage, most acutely felt in resort towns where high demand from second-home buyers and vacationers has priced out local workers; new developments like Rifle Apartments in Colorado aim to address this issue.
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28% Bias Score
Tenerife Protest Demands Tourism Limits Amidst Environmental Concerns
Dozens protested a tourism congress in Tenerife on Sunday, demanding limits to mass tourism due to its negative social and environmental impacts, including pollution from over 200 active sewage outlets along the coast and displacement of locals. The group 'Canarias tiene un límite' organized the pro...
Tenerife Protest Demands Tourism Limits Amidst Environmental Concerns
Dozens protested a tourism congress in Tenerife on Sunday, demanding limits to mass tourism due to its negative social and environmental impacts, including pollution from over 200 active sewage outlets along the coast and displacement of locals. The group 'Canarias tiene un límite' organized the pro...
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32% Bias Score
House Budget Passes with Controversial Student Loan Program Restructuring
The House passed a budget for fiscal year 2025 that includes significant tax cuts and increased spending, but a key, yet to be finalized, component is a restructuring of the student loan program that would eliminate the Saving on Valuable Education income-driven repayment plan and increase monthly p...
House Budget Passes with Controversial Student Loan Program Restructuring
The House passed a budget for fiscal year 2025 that includes significant tax cuts and increased spending, but a key, yet to be finalized, component is a restructuring of the student loan program that would eliminate the Saving on Valuable Education income-driven repayment plan and increase monthly p...
Progress
56% Bias Score
Soaring Australian Housing Prices Outpace Wage Growth, Exacerbating Affordability Crisis
Australian median dwelling values have surged to $1.01 million, more than doubling since 2012, while wages increased by only 37.8 percent, creating a significant affordability gap despite recent price slowdowns; experts suggest increased housing supply as a solution but note political challenges.
Soaring Australian Housing Prices Outpace Wage Growth, Exacerbating Affordability Crisis
Australian median dwelling values have surged to $1.01 million, more than doubling since 2012, while wages increased by only 37.8 percent, creating a significant affordability gap despite recent price slowdowns; experts suggest increased housing supply as a solution but note political challenges.
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52% Bias Score
House Republicans' Tax Cut Plan Faces Scrutiny Amidst Contradictory Economic Data
House Republicans propose extending tax cuts from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, primarily benefiting high-income households, while simultaneously cutting funding for Medicaid and SNAP, impacting vulnerable populations; this plan contradicts the supply-side economic theory underpinning the tax cuts...
House Republicans' Tax Cut Plan Faces Scrutiny Amidst Contradictory Economic Data
House Republicans propose extending tax cuts from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, primarily benefiting high-income households, while simultaneously cutting funding for Medicaid and SNAP, impacting vulnerable populations; this plan contradicts the supply-side economic theory underpinning the tax cuts...
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60% Bias Score
Trumpism's National-Capitalism: A Historical Parallel and its Unsustainable Future
Donald Trump's presidency has highlighted the resurgence of national-capitalism, an aggressive economic model similar to 19th-century European colonialism, characterized by authoritarianism and resource extraction, ultimately unsustainable due to internal contradictions and the rise of competing eco...
Trumpism's National-Capitalism: A Historical Parallel and its Unsustainable Future
Donald Trump's presidency has highlighted the resurgence of national-capitalism, an aggressive economic model similar to 19th-century European colonialism, characterized by authoritarianism and resource extraction, ultimately unsustainable due to internal contradictions and the rise of competing eco...
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56% Bias Score
Spanish Coalition Divided Over Minimum Wage Tax
A political dispute has erupted within Spain's governing coalition over the taxation of the recently increased minimum wage, with the socialist wing defending the tax as a sign of progress while left-wing parties oppose it due to the high tax rate.
Spanish Coalition Divided Over Minimum Wage Tax
A political dispute has erupted within Spain's governing coalition over the taxation of the recently increased minimum wage, with the socialist wing defending the tax as a sign of progress while left-wing parties oppose it due to the high tax rate.
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60% Bias Score
Massive Deposits Needed to Buy Homes in UK Cities
New research from April Mortgages shows that buying a home in over half of Britain's biggest towns and cities typically requires a deposit of over £100,000, with 16 locations demanding over £200,000, due to the widening gap between house prices and average incomes, impacting affordability for averag...
Massive Deposits Needed to Buy Homes in UK Cities
New research from April Mortgages shows that buying a home in over half of Britain's biggest towns and cities typically requires a deposit of over £100,000, with 16 locations demanding over £200,000, due to the widening gap between house prices and average incomes, impacting affordability for averag...
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56% Bias Score
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