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Large swathes of people losing faith in democracy is a dangerous thing. Conflict, desperation, totalitarianism are the products of that loss of faith.
Limiting the destructive risk-taking by large financial firms and banks which are 'too big to fail' is needed.
Many communities are already devastated by poverty. Increasingly, that poverty is born of the greed of a global trading system.
Many governments and corporations take no moral responsibility for the enslavement of migrant workers and freely do business with states built on the back of slave labour. Illicit financial flows and tax evasion are ignored in the interests of some nations and their corporations, stripping the tax base that is so vital for essential services.
Many women drop out of the work force altogether, which holds back our economy with a loss of skills and personnel.
Market-led globalization is leading to a race to the bottom, where efficiency and profit matter more than a fair share for working people.
My job is to represent working people.
No country can afford to lose a generation to unemployment.
Out of the fires of desperation burn hope and solidarity.
Politically, we have seen the impact of social media organizing people through the Arab Spring.
Poor people around the world spend more on energy because they lack the capital to buy a more expensive energy-efficient product.
Programs that reduce energy and water use and increase green agriculture and transport have huge job-creating potential.
Public opinion must be heard.
Securing a sustainable future will take all of us working together.
South Carolina is a 'right to work' state - a misnomer of a phrase, as the laws limits union representation of workers. It does does not guarantee workers a job or fair wages and conditions.
Stark inequality, poverty, and unemployment are driving increased social unrest and, consequently, social and economic risk. Environmental deterioration may well intensify social inequality.
Technological developments are changing the way we live, and there is much talk of digitalisation and the disruptive business models enabled by smart phones, tablets, computers, and the 'Internet of things.'
Technology can be used to make people's lives easier, to reduce inequality, to facilitate inclusion, or to solve intractable global problems, but without dialogue and governance, it can be used against humanity - the choice on how we use technology is ours.
The competitive pressure to produce, buy, and sell to our global multi-national companies is so intense that contractors in supply chains are motivated to pay low wages, intensify exploitative conditions, keep workers fearful with insecure work contracts, or simply sack workers who have formed a union to fight back.
The concept of 'green jobs' or a 'green economy' is often attacked as the work of the Grimm Brothers by those wedded to the grim science of free-market economics.
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12 December, 1954
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