The model It simulates what happens when entire budgets grow — including health, education, infrastructure, and even defence.

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These numbers come from the GRADE model, built by researchers at St Andrews and Leicester. It shows how changes in government revenue affect Sustainable Development Goals across nearly every country.
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For $1 billion in additional government revenue, countries could deliver on average:
💧 140,140 people gaining basic water access
📚 258,563 more children in school
💡 1,241,472 more people with electricity
🏥 31,616 more nurses
👩‍🏫 11,855 more teachers
…plus improvements across the whole budget.

At every extra billion on the tracker, the site shows what that money could buy.
For example:
🏰 $1B = Buckingham Palace
🍾 $25B = Fill 200 Olympic swimming pools with champagne
🖼️ $35B = All the art in the Louvre
(Obviously, none of these are actually for sale!)

Things might look bleak, but every episode ends with a reminder: change is possible when people organize, demand accountability, and push for a fairer world.

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A “billionaires’ coup” is reshaping global politics while workers’ rights are eroded.
Across wars and austerity, unions show how instability is exploited for private gain.
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Private equity is turning healthcare into a profit machine, squeezing public budgets
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Fossil fuel expansion is a wealth-extraction strategy, costing communities while profits soar.
The poorest pay for climate chaos, while fossil profits keep flowing to the top.
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Excessive wealth erodes freedom, fairness, and the very possibility of a fair society.
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Education spending per child in Sub-Saharan Africa is 40× lower than in the Global North — but not by choice. It’s what happens when countries are forced to send more money to rich countries through debt & unequal financial rules.

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Across 9 episodes of this season so far, one message was clear:
The Global South and the 99% of humanity is being drained — through climate crisis, debt, financial rules, and political power designed to move wealth upward.
Here’s what our guests exposed 👇

That’s your November #EQUALSRewind: Stories, voices, and evidence of a world that’s rigged — and the people pushing back.

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