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#Irish #workers #pay fell 3.9% behind inflation last year, equivalent to a €2,107 pay cut or working 8.3 days for free.
Most alarmingly, extreme #wealth and extreme #poverty have both increased - for the first time in 25 years
#Oxfam said there is an urgent need for#Ireland to discuss taxing #ExtremeWealth to balance #executive pay and #workers pay.

#InternationalWorkersDay

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2023/0501/1380010-inflation-oxfam/

#irish #poverty #workers #pay #wealth #oxfam #extremewealth #executive #internationalworkersday

The richest 1 percent grabbed nearly two-thirds of all new #wealth worth $42 trillion created since 2020, almost twice as much money as the bottom 99 percent of the world’s population, reveals a new #Oxfam report today. During the past decade, the richest 1 percent had captured around half of all new wealth.

1% of people captured 2/3 of all wealth.

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/richest-1-bag-nearly-twice-much-wealth-rest-world-put-together-over-past-two-years

#wealth #oxfam

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