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Taxing billionaires is crucial to closing the inequality gap. A wealth tax could:

-Fund the child care industry
-Create dignified, green jobs
-Invest in communities most impacted by climate change
-Support gender-based violence programs
-Provide access to life-saving vaccines for millions of people
-Begin to lift people out of poverty

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Gender inequality means that women and girls often face the worst impacts of a crisis. Gender-based violence results in a minimum of 67,000 deaths each year.Thirteen million fewer women are at work now than in 2019. Women are also disproportionately underpaid and unprotected workers and perform the bulk of unpaid care work

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The ongoing pandemic has shown how deadly inequality can be. Whether it’s the disproportionate death rates of people of color, the unequitable global vaccine rollout, or the uneven economic impacts, it is clear that COVID-19 is an inequality issue.
Right now, a persons’ ability to access a life-saving vaccine is often dependent on the country where they live.

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The richest countries are responsible for 92 percent of excess emissions, and richest 1 percent are estimated to be producing more than double the emissions of the 3.1 billion people who make up the poorest half of humanity.

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Inequality contributes to the death of at least one person every four seconds.
Oxfam released our annual inequality report, "Inequality Kills", which found that inequality is contributing to the death of at least 21,000 people each day, or one person every four seconds. Meanwhile, a new billionaire is created every 26 hours.