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Jen Sorensen

6 months ago

Jen Sorensen
6 months ago

Latest comic: Floored

#inequality #unhoused #homeless #cartoon #comic #travel

Floored

1. On a recent foundation-funded trip to DC, I was starkly reminded of America's growing economic divide.

Jen walking past unhoused person sleeping on street with jewelry store window in the background

2. While people slept on the sidewalk nearby, I was put up in a hotel that catered to every conceivable human desire for comfort*

*a rare occurrence

Jen in large bed with high thread count sheets and mints on the bedside table. Thought balloon reads "This is so great."

3. The next night, I found myself sleeping on an airport floor alongside hundreds of people whose flights were canceled.

Jen uncomfortably lying on airport floor using a backpack as a pillow. Outside the window it is snowing on the tarmac

Thought balloon: "I would never survive on the streets."

At least I still had access to bathrooms and $15 prepackaged sandwiches.

4. It occurred to me that this is the only public space where it's socially acceptable to have no place to sleep.

Wide shot of several people lying on airport floor and flopped on chairs

... a tiny bourgeois taste of the real thing.

#Comic #cartoon #inequality #travel #unhoused #homeless

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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

8 months ago

Emeritus Prof Christopher May
8 months ago

'Since 2020, the richest five men in the world have doubled their fortunes. During the same period, almost five billion people globally have become poorer. Hardship & hunger are a daily reality for many people worldwide. At current rates, it will take 230 years to end poverty, but we could have our first trillionaire in 10 years'!

@oxfam latest report on #inequality focusses on the role of #corporations as the engines of the widening gap between rich & poor!

https://policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/inequality-inc-how-corporate-power-divides-our-world-and-the-need-for-a-new-era-621583/

Inequality Inc. How corporate power divides our world and the need for a new era of public action - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Since 2020, the richest five men in the world have doubled their fortunes. During the same period, almost five billion people globally have become poorer. Hardship and hunger are a daily reality for many people worldwide.

^{Oxfam Policy & Practice}

#inequality #corporations @oxfam

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