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According to official figures, over the past twelve months 1.4 million people have lost their lives globally to Omicron. Estimates of the real global death toll via excess deaths places the tally at 5.2 million, a quarter of all excess deaths during the pandemic.
Not only is the gig economy devastating its workers, but there are ongoing efforts to expand the model to nearly all American workplaces. It is estimated that 36 percent of the US workforce are gig, contract, freelance and temporary workers. And the numbers are only growing.
Additionally, around 1.89 lakh teachers exited the workforce. These findings were revealed in the Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) data for the year 2021-22.
The next global wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has begun. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation estimates that 21 million people were infected globally on 19 October, up 23 percent from the most recent trough of 17 million infections on September 27.
The U.S. represents 4% of the world’s population, 25% of global covid deaths and 23% of covid cases. The capitalist ideologues who infest our government are incapable of coping with disease. In a word, they are incompetent. So no, in this country, covid isn’t going anywhere. It’ll keep killing.
During the 12th Ministerial of the WTO, which took place from June 12 to 17, the European Union, the United States and the UK ensured that no worthwhile patent waiver measure was passed. The profits of Big Pharma once again trumped the lives and health of the people.
According to the 2021 NCRB report, the daily wage earner remained the largest group (profession-wise) among the total number of suicide victims in 2021. Also: NCRB report reveals grim situation of female suicides; atrocities on Dalits and Adivasis also on the rise.
Highly qualified candidates seeking low-level jobs, reduced wages, lower real incomes, worsening quality of employment, millions moving from salaried jobs to casual work—many things disguise unemployment in India.
Three-part article on the future of work since the pandemic slump: Remote Working; Working Long and Hard; and Automation.
The government claims that India is on its way to becoming the fastest growing major economy in the world. It has based these claims on manipulative use of data to project a rosy picture. But there are other data sets that run contrary to the government’s claims, ones the govt doesn’t talk about.
Janata Weekly is India’s oldest independent socialist weekly.
Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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