{"id":85697,"date":"2017-01-23T15:32:23","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T15:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=85697"},"modified":"2017-01-23T15:40:04","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T15:40:04","slug":"an-economy-for-the-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/01\/an-economy-for-the-99\/","title":{"rendered":"An Economy for the 99%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>January 2017 &#8211; Oxfam Briefing Paper<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>It\u201fs time to build a human economy that benefits everyone, not just the privileged few.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>New estimates show that just eight men own the same wealth as the poorest half of the world. As growth benefits the richest, the rest of society \u2013 especially the poorest \u2013 suffers. The very design of our economies and the principles of our economics have taken us to this extreme, unsustainable and unjust point. Our economy must stop excessively rewarding those at the top and start working for all people. Accountable and visionary governments, businesses that work in the interests of workers and producers, a valued environment, women\u2019s rights and a strong system of fair taxation, are central to this more human economy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/AN-ECONOMY-FOR-THE-99-Percent.pdf\" >Download the full report here: AN ECONOMY FOR THE 99%<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeffJanuary 2017 Oxfam Briefing Paper &#8211; It\u201fs time to build a human economy that benefits everyone, not just the privileged few.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}