Before spending billions on 'sustainable aviation fuels' to keep jets in the air, there are more urgent needs to meet — like decarbonizing the ground transit we all use every day.

Watch IPS Inequality.org scholar Chuck Collins on Greater Boston: youtube.com/watch?v=WhNbaA…

Carla Ventura of RESULTS once fed her family using food pantries, and now runs one herself. But the real solution, she urges in Inequality.org, is fully funding nutrition programs like SNAP.

'People shouldn’t have to rely on food pantries.' inequality.org/research/we-ne…

That's the most hundred-billionaires on record.

Katherine Charles spends all day helping people access Affordable Care Act benefits. While the call center company pays its CEO millions, they don't pay her enough to cover her own health needs.

It's time to change that, she writes in Inequality.org:
inequality.org/research/i-kee…

Does SAF undermine climate goals?
New report from Inequality.org points out that
1) the aviation industry has an unreliable record of meeting SAF production targets
2) the rapid expansion of SAFs could actively undermine net zero 1/2
inequality.org/great-divide/s…

While the aviation industry’s pledge to develop biofuels may sound reasonable, research shows that the plan is unsustainable. A better plan would simply be to fly less — especially when it comes to luxury private jets.

Omar Ocampo in Inequality.org: inequality.org/great-divide/s…

Ralph de la Torre also likes to travel the skies in a $62 million private jet bostonglobe.com/2024/02/23/met…

NEW: A whopping 80% of U.S. voters agree that companies with outrageous CEO pay should face higher taxes, polling from Data for Progress shows.

This is a clear directive for 'the big tax fight of 2025,' writes Sarah Anderson of Inequality.org in The Hill: thehill.com/opinion/financ…

The 'sustainable aviation fuels' that the aviation industry claims will cleanse its carbon footprint aren't as green as they seem — and are 'just not scalable,' warns IPS Inequality.org scholar Chuck Collins.

New from Oliver Milman in The Guardian: theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Private jet travel may be the single most carbon-intensive form of travel. Developers claim they can curb this — by building MORE private jet hangars.

This blatant greenwashing is a danger to our climate. Chuck Collins of Inequality.org in Boston Herald: bostonherald.com/2024/05/04/col…

Bezos's three most recent mansion purchases are all on island nicknamed, no joke, 'Billionaire Bunker.'

NEW: As the private jet industry faces heat over its massive carbon footprint, they’re promising to use a less-polluting alternative to fossil jet fuel.

Inequality.org researchers find that these fuels are largely — so far — a false solution. Report: ips-dc.org/report-greenwa…

Does anyone really think Hock works over a thousand times harder than his engineers?

While British CEOs try to up their pay to American level, investors in the U.S. are trying to limit their execs compensation closer to the model in the U.K. Sarah Anderson helps explains the dynamic in FORTUNE
fortune.com/europe/2024/05…

New psychology research shows that in addition to leading shorter lives, people living in unequal societies like our own are more likely to accept unethical behavior.

Sam Pizzigati in Inequality.org: inequality.org/great-divide/t…

Hi everyone, sharing this info. Read more about #DonorRevolt . Decolonizing Wealth Project signed on bc we want to see more money get to community ASAP! Liberate the capital! insidephilanthropy.com/home/2024/4/9/… #philanthropy

Apple announced the largest ever stock buyback this week, breaking the record held by — wait for it — Apple.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The CHIPS Act's #childcare requirement has the potential to demonstrate that public investment in both physical and care infrastructure will be key to growing our economy. Julie Kashen and I write for Institute for Policy Studies Inequality.org

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