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BREAKING: #Coronavirus pandemic profits for companies soar by billions more as the world's poorest people pay price. 🚨

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#InequalityVirus

As the #COVID19 pandemic hits 6 months, close to a million people have lost their lives.

And the economic fallout has been devastating too: 400 million jobs lost & half a billion people expected to be pushed into poverty.

But not everyone is losing out.

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Jeff Bezos could personally pay each of @amazon’s 876,000 employees a one-off bonus of more than $100,000 - and still be as wealthy as he was at the beginning of the pandemic.

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#COVID19 #InequalityVirus

The world’s largest corporations are making $billions for already-wealthy shareholders yet failing to protect the jobs & health of low-wage workers during the #COVID19 pandemic.

Get the numbers in our latest report: Power, Profits and the Pandemic 👉🏾 oxf.am/pandemic-profi… 👀

5 ways in which corporations are cashing in on the #coronavirus crisis - and exacerbating inequality

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If governments implement a '#Pandemic Profit Tax' on these 32 companies, we could raise $104 billion.

That money could provide #COVID19 testing & vaccines for *everyone* on the planet...

and support our frontline healthcare workers. 😷💚

#PandemicProfits

Profits of 32 of the world’s largest companies jumped by $109bn this year, even during the #pandemic - while half a billion people are expected to be pushed into poverty. 🤔

Get the fact & figures in our new report: oxf.am/pandemic-profi…