Inequality -- and starvation -- around the world.

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The British-based charity group Oxfam has done an important service by offering an annual indication of the gravity of inequality. This year, Oxfam noted that a mere 42 rich people have as much wealth as 3.7 billion poor people. What is most astounding is that in 2017, 82 percent of the social wealth produced by the world’s people was vacuumed into the bank accounts of the wealthiest 1 percent among us. ..... What is less digested is that increased inequality compounds not only poverty — which is obvious — but hunger. It is true that war and climate change are major factors that leave people without access to food. Starvation follows aerial bombardment and rising tides. But it is even more important to focus on the much wider problem of inequality and poverty that make hunger a normal part of life — the constant sound in the heads of the impoverished.

https://www.salon.com/2018/09/08/hun...rning_partner/

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