#hand-out

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Next time you hear a right-wing person talk about hand-outs, remind them of the unpaid labour of women, who do 3/4 of the work in the world.

There is a day in autumn after which, due to the gender pay gap, women work for nothin for the rest of the year. Now THAT is a hand-out.

Unliveable wages, that is a massive hand-out, and where the billionaires get their billions. Not out of thin air, but out of the hands of the poor and huddled masses.

In the US, the massively disproportionately black prison population is even now compelled to slave labour. That is a hand-out.

The ridiculous cost of housing, half a salary, that is a hand-out.

The ridiculous cost of education beyond the age of 18, that is a hand-out.

The ridiculous cost of healthcare, the profiteering of big pharma, that is a hand-out.

by jollyjack

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Trade-not-aid has become a new mantra in post-earthquake Haiti as President Michel Martelly struggles to rebuild an economically shattered nation. Although Haiti has long been heavily reliant on foreign assistance, funnelled through thousands of NGOs, Ms. Jean says it’s time for a “profound change in the paradigm.”