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Equality Trust @equalitytrust.bsky.social · 4h

Privatised water companies awarded themselves £80 billion in dividends while loading themselves up with £70 billion in debt. And now it's your problem, because they've won an appeal to finance all this by hiking YOUR bill even further. Nationalise now.

Bold text announces water companies winning an appeal to increase customer bills, highlighted by repeated 'HIKE!' signs in green shades.

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Equality Trust @equalitytrust.bsky.social · 2d

EU billionaire wealth soared by over €400bn in just six months. This is enough money to hit Net Zero emissions in the UK about 3 times over, and maybe buy yourself some socks. I don't know. I don't know what you do with that kind of money. Wait, yes I do. TAX IT.

Text stating European billionaires earn 2 billion euros daily in the first half of 2025, with falling euro banknotes in the background.

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Compass @compassoffice.bsky.social · 4d

Privatised water companies are putting your bills up AGAIN.

As if the already agreed £104bn in rises by 2030 wasn't enough, companies have asked for up to 18% more in your bills.

Public ownership is the only option. The arguments against are drying up.

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Future Economy Scotland @futureeconscot.bsky.social · 9d

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Who owns Scotland's offshore wind assets?

Our new interactive map with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social lets you explore who really owns ScotWind projects – and who stands to benefit

Highlights in 🧵
Explore the map 👉 www.futureeconomy.scot/scotwind

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Patriotic Millionaires @patrioticmillionaires.org · 5d

At the height of the pandemic in 2020, the wealth of the world’s billionaires grew 54%.

That's not a design flaw of our system. It's the system working as it is currently intended to. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

Boom time for US billionaires: why the system perpetuates wealth inequality

As the super rich grow even richer, inequality expert Chuck Collins says the system is broken – but it can be fixed

www.theguardian.com

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Equality Trust @equalitytrust.bsky.social · 5d

Catch our wonderful co-founders Professors Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson (and many other great speakers, but they didn't help found the Equality Trust) at Australia's Equity Co-Lab Summit next week! You can find out more about this year's Fair By Design theme here: equitycolab.org/2025...

A picture of Professor Richard Wilkinson and Professor Kate Pickett

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Positive Money UK @positivemoneyuk.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 Bank taxes on the front page of The i today! 🚨

Our #TaxTheBanks campaign has never felt this close to a win - now we need you to email your MP to get it over the line!

Head to bit.ly/TaxTheBanksMP... and use our template today!

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Oxfam GB @oxfamgb.bsky.social · 7d

Horrified by what’s happening in Gaza? Wondering what you can do?
Download our free #RedLineForGaza toolkit – packed with ideas to help you take action and raise your voice in your community.
We must speak out. Together.
Download: bit.ly/Gaza_CampaignerKit

A crowd at a protest, with signs reading "Drop the Ban Defend the Right to Protest", "Red Line for Gaza", and "Stand Up For Gaza".

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Chris Gooch @chrisdg.bsky.social · 9d

Unbelievable levels off profit at Tesco, up x 2.62 since last year. Profiting from a cost of living crisis. You must read the article

Equality Trust @equalitytrust.bsky.social · 11d

Tesco CEO Ken Murphy is paid 431 times more than his workers while he's making hundreds of workers redundant. Is this good for society?
If you think it's not, do something about it: sign our petition with @highpaycentre.bsky.social now: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/it...

Bar chart comparing Tesco CEO Ken Murphy's nearly £10 million salary to the average Tesco worker's pay, highlighting CEO pay excess.

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Equality Trust @equalitytrust.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you compass I take back everything bad I said about compasses during the Duke of Edinburgh's award scheme

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Compass @compassoffice.bsky.social · 10d

Should your boss be paid 431 times more than you?

There is a simple, evidence-based step to tackle extreme inequality and promote a fairer economy: a 10:1 pay ratio.

Add your voice to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/it...

@equalitytrust.bsky.social @highpaycentre.bsky.social

It's time for a maximum wage

New data from the High Pay Centre shows that the median FTSE 100 CEO now earns £4.58 million a year – 122 times more than the typical UK worker, with some, like Tesco’s CEO, paid 431 times more than t...

you.38degrees.org.uk

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Equality Trust @equalitytrust.bsky.social · 11d

Tesco CEO Ken Murphy is paid 431 times more than his workers while he's making hundreds of workers redundant. Is this good for society?
If you think it's not, do something about it: sign our petition with @highpaycentre.bsky.social now: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/it...

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Equality Trust @equalitytrust.bsky.social · 10d

Any individual with half a trillion dollars would be bad, but I'm not a fan of this being the one we've got either.
An economic system that does this is insane. Tax wealth now.

Graphic announcing Elon Musk as the world's first half trillionaire (hooray) with a call to tax wealth now, featuring a city skyline and private jets.

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Equality Trust @equalitytrust.bsky.social · 11d

Tesco CEO Ken Murphy is paid 431 times more than his workers while he's making hundreds of workers redundant. Is this good for society?
If you think it's not, do something about it: sign our petition with @highpaycentre.bsky.social now: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/it...

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Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 11d

Tax wealth.

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 12d

🚨 Private affluence and public squalor 🔽🔽🔽

Or, why modern life has become shit - all in one graph!

➡️ World #Inequality Report: wir2022.wid.world/chapter-3/

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New Economics Foundation @neweconomics.bsky.social · 12d

Scrapping the two-child limit is one of the simplest levers to lift children out of poverty. This long-awaited change could improve the lives of thousands of children around the country.

But replacing it with a tapered system will limit the good that this can do. 1/3

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 12d

BREAKING: Chancellor Rachel Reeves is to lift the two-child benefit limit in the budget, a key demand of Labour MPs and child poverty campaigners, with officials exploring options of a new tapered system 👏

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Rachel Reeves to lift two-child benefit cap in November’s budget

Exclusive: Officials exploring options to change rule that affected 1.7 million children in Great Britain last year UK politics live – latest updates

www.theguardian.com

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New Economics Foundation @neweconomics.bsky.social · 12d

"You have a series of other options that barely get discussed."

Live from #LabourPartyConference this morning, NEF's Deputy Chief Exec, Hannah Peaker, reflects on arbitrary fiscal rules, central bank losses, and the need to move beyond a failed and unchanging economic strategy.

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Fairness Foundation @fairness.bsky.social · 12d

Quick reaction to the PM's conference speech (🧵)

"Wealth creation is hoarded by just a few communities", the PM said in his conference speech today. Another way of putting this is that too much wealth is extracted from our economy, rather than genuinely being created in the first place.

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Equality Trust @equalitytrust.bsky.social · 13d

We're living through crisis after crisis and the super rich aren't just doing fine – they're profiting from them. That's why taxes on wealth are popular with absolutely everyone from millionaires to Nobel Prize winners.
Whose side is Reeves on: us or the billionaires?

Infographic showing strong support for taxing the super rich from the public, millionaires, experts, and political parties, with only the government opposing.

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Fairness Foundation @fairness.bsky.social · 17d

Too many people feel that our economy is rigged against them- that no matter how hard they work or what contribution they make, they can't get by.

Our new report examines how this is fuelling the rise of populist politics- and what we can do about it.

🔗https://fairnessfoundation.com/rigged

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Equality Trust @equalitytrust.bsky.social · 18d

What if our society was equal?
It can be. But we need you 🫵 to join us 🟰
Subscribe to On The Level now to hear the truth about inequality and the ways people all over the world are winning equality.

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Fold @fold.fm · 19d

”Make Them Pay demands three key things from our government:

Tax the super-rich
Protect workers, not billionaires
Make polluters pay”

Another nail-on-the-head campaign from @equalitytrust.bsky.social. I’ve written to my MP, will you do the same?

actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Tell your MP to vote against disability cuts

I used the @equalitytrust tool to tell my MP why they have to support Make Them Pay! Tell yours now: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-your-mp-to-make-them-pay

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Sam Pizzigati @sgp.bsky.social · 19d

Activists in the UK have launched an imaginative new campaign for a maximum wage. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/it... For a deeper dive into the #maximumwage notion: www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Ca...
@highpaycentre.bsky.social @equalitytrust.bsky.social

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Equality Trust @equalitytrust.bsky.social · 20d

The CEO of Tesco is paid 431 times more than his workers and doubled his pay while announcing job cuts. But that's just one example of the UK's unequal pay – we have some of the most unequal incomes in the developed world.

Line graph showing income growth from 1977 to 2024, with the richest 10% income rising sharply, average income moderately, and poorest 10% barely increasing.

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