ECONOMIC & HEALTH REFORM
Today, a handful of billionaires possess more wealth than half the world’s population combined, while millions struggle to afford rent, medicine, or a warm meal. The promises of industrial progress—security, leisure, prosperity—have been hoarded at the top and denied to the many. What passes for economic policy is too often a shell game of austerity and deregulation, masking a deeper betrayal: that in the richest society in human history, vast swaths of the population are treated as disposable in a globalized economy.
