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" Democracy is becoming collateral damage in a world where global risks have been ignored or exacerbated by those with the power to act. "

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" When minimum living wages, bargaining for fair wages, pensions, and job security are denied in too many countries, it is not rocket science to understand the drivers of inequality. "

" We know how to build economies. It requires investment in jobs. The biggest medium-term multiplier is infrastructure. "

" As economists bandy about terms like 'recapitalization,' 'credit lines,' and 'liquidity,' families are facing brutal cuts to their social services and welfare payments, losing their homes, wondering how their kids will make their way in the world. "

" We need to decarbonise our societies and economies. "

" What Qatar chose is a system where a worker is owned by his employer. When your employer forces you to live in squalor, makes you work longest hours in extreme heat, doesn't allow you to change jobs, doesn't pay your wages on time, abuses you physically and psychologically, you have no way out, you can't leave. You are trapped. "

" When we see the banks get bailed out with seemingly no consequences while ordinary people pay the price with job and wage cuts through austerity measures, who could blame a person for wondering where the loyalties of their elected leaders really lie? "

" The environment, stabilizing the climate, needs urgent attention from all of us. "

" Workers know first-hand how corporate capture of government is undermining their rights and freedoms as citizens. "

" Creating a Financial Transactions Tax would go a long way to curbing short-term speculative trading, including high-frequency trading. "

" As universal a truth as the rising and setting of the sun each day, the global economy needs people. "

" We must make both our distributional and democratic systems work for our communities. "

" Football, or soccer as it is known, is a game of two halves. It's a game with rules and a referee. FIFA, the governing body for football, follows neither the rule of law or has the oversight of a referee. "

" Until you separate the speculative behaviour of the financial sector from the real economy and the financing of the real economy, then we are not going to see the kind of stability or the capacity to drive genuine, income-led growth as opposed to debt-fuelled, speculative behaviour. "

" A binding treaty and mandatory human rights due diligence would clean up slavery in global supply chains. Workers demand it, and consumers demand it. "

" There's not much more of an honour - to work for, and with, working people. "

" Market-led globalization is leading to a race to the bottom, where efficiency and profit matter more than a fair share for working people. "

" If people do not have jobs, they do not have a secure income, and they do not have a sense of security. "

" Anyone who has lived in an area with high unemployment knows how it erodes social bonds, lowers the resilience of the unemployed and their families, and damages the prospects of the next generation. "

" With global rules for global supply chains, we can end corporate greed. "

" Many communities are already devastated by poverty. Increasingly, that poverty is born of the greed of a global trading system. "

" We all eat breakfast in the morning, we all go to sleep at night, and we all want our kids to have opportunities that we didn't. "

" Workers in Myanmar must have an effective remedy when their rights are violated. "

" Where workers are not free to change employers or leave the country without the permission of their employer, workers are, de facto, in forced labour. "

" Globalization can be shaped to ensure that people matter. "

" When governments are cowed or simply don't care to enforce fundamental human and labour rights or to ensure corporate tax is paid so that they can invest in social protection and in the health and education of their people, they cede control to corporate greed. "

" All business must have a social license to operate. "

" When work is not underpinned by social protection, people risk falling into poverty traps. "

" Governments that fail to provide jobs to those who are willing and able to work begin to lose their legitimacy and will face the anger of the electorate. "

" Securing a sustainable future will take all of us working together. "

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" You cannot fuel demand, or consumption-led demand, on credit forever. "