Submitted by Kathryn Busby on 29 April 2010

Have your candidates signed? If not, there's still time to ask them!

Submitted by Kathryn Busby on 29 April 2010

The April edition of our quarterly supporter newsletter Among Equals is out now. Read it here.

Submitted by Kathryn Busby on 29 April 2010

One Society has just launched a handy new tool showcasing policies to tackle inequality and rating the election manifestos.

Submitted by Kathryn Busby on 26 April 2010

A coalition of charities, including The Equality Trust, Child Poverty Action Group, Barnardo's and the TUC are asking the three main party leaders to commit to a Fairness Test on any tax rises or spending cuts they would introduce in government.

Submitted by Kathryn Busby on 26 April 2010

374 parliamentary candidates have signed our Equality Pledge - are yours among them?

Submitted by Kathryn Busby on 22 April 2010

On Thursday 29th April the party leaders' debate will focus on the economy. If you have a question you'd like to ask, then you can submit it through this BBC website

Submitted by Kathryn Busby on 21 April 2010

Injustice: Why social inequality persists by Daniel Dorling is out now, stocked by many independent booksellers. Find your local bookshop and buy a copy from them online.

Submitted by Kathryn Busby on 14 April 2010

This Thursday sees the first of three UK Election 2010 Leaders' Debates. The Equality Trust and One Society invite you to watch and play...

Submitted by Kathryn Busby on 12 April 2010

Our letter in Saturday's Guardian.

Submitted by Kathryn Busby on 9 April 2010

Conservative Leader David Cameron writes in today's Guardian: "The government plays an important role in helping to shape society, so if we win the election we will set up a fair pay review to investigate pay inequality in the public sector."

Submitted by Kathryn Busby on 8 April 2010

This week the Institute for Fiscal Studies has reported that "tax and benefit measures implemented by Labour since 1997 have increased the incomes of poorer households and reduced those of richer ones, largely halting the rapid rise in income inequality we saw under the Conservatives. Despite this, inequality was still slightly higher in 2007–08 than when Labour came to office."

Submitted by Kathryn Busby on 6 April 2010

On the day that the General Election is called, the total number of candidates who have signed the Equality Pledge has reached 264.

Submitted by Kathryn Busby on 6 April 2010

Our letter to the Guardian, printed on Friday:

Submitted by Kathryn Busby on 31 March 2010

If you believe a better society is possible, please make a donation to The Equality Trust today.

Submitted by Kathryn Busby on 26 March 2010

The impact of income inequalities on sustainable development in London is a powerful and compelling new report written by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, published by the London Sustainable Development Commission.

Download a PDF of the report.

Submitted by Kathryn Busby on 24 March 2010

One Society welcomes the Chancellor's acceptance of our case that top earners should bear their fair share of the costs of the recession and the recovery.   But we are disappointed by an absence of measures to change the damaging culture of high and runaway pay, or tackle wealth inequality. Both will be further entrenched, and the impact of attempts to raise the bottom limited, unless existing one-off moves (like that on stamp duty) are made permanent and further such policies implemented.

Submitted by Kathryn Busby on 24 March 2010

Awaiting the Chancellor's Budget statement later today, One Society - the campaign promoting policy solutions to the entrenched gap between rich and poor in the UK - is calling for this to be the last Budget that that does not report on what effect its measures will have on income inequality.

Submitted by Kathryn Busby on 18 March 2010

A group of British churches are urging their members, with combined assets of £12 billion, to invest only in companies where the highest paid worker is not more than 75 times that of the average pay of the lowest paid staff. Bill Seddon, chief executive of the Methodist Church's central finance board, explains the guidance on BBC Radio 4 Today.

Submitted by Kathryn Busby on 16 March 2010

All the international data used in our analysis is from publicly available sources. We have compiled a spreadsheet of this data for all 29 analyses discussed in The Spirit Level, and for which we give correlation and probability values on this website.

Submitted by Kathryn Busby on 15 March 2010

On topical TV debate show The Big Questions yesterday, a maximum wage was one of the subjects up for discussion, with contributors including Kate Pickett from The Equality Trust. Watch online (the maximum wage discussion starts at 22 minutes and is available on BBC iPlayer until Sunday 21st March).