Read the Time.com Q&A with Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett.

Hospital cleaners are worth more to society than city bankers, according to a new method of calculating the value of different jobs published today by nef.

Wilkinson and Pickett's study gave scientific weight to a long-held claim of the left: that people are happier and healthier when they live in societies where wealth is distributed more equally. But the book's influence stretches across party lines and its findings are likely to shape political debate for many years to come.

New Statesman's Top 10 books of the decade.

Read a letter by Malcolm Clark, Director of the One Society Campaign in today's Guardian, about the positives for bankers of losing their bonuses.

Dr Lynne Friedli talks about the impact of inequality on mental health, in a discussion with John Humphrys on the Today Programme - scroll down to 07.33

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Banks will be forced to reveal how many of their staff earn more than one million pounds a year, under recommended reforms of the financial sector to be released today.

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Kate Green, Chief Executive of Child Poverty Action Group, writes for the TUC's Touchstone blog that "if we are to take seriously the issues of child poverty and child wellbeing then we need to tackle the high levels of inequality in this country."

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Read the letter in today's Guardian signed by Neal Lawson (Compass), Jon Cruddas MP, Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett and others.

Six million people work for the state in Britain, in hundreds of professions. Find out how their incomes compare, from the top to the bottom.

From the Guardian, Tuesday 17 November

On Sunday, The Observer asked a selection of novelists, critics, politicians, historians and others for their Books of the Year.

Politicians Ken Livingstone and Roy Hattersley, and historian Tristram Hunt all chose The Spirit Level.

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David Cameron's speech on poverty, the state and the mass engagement of a new generation of community activists on Tuesday set the direction of travel under a Conservative government. In the Guardian today a panel of social experts analyse the Tory leader's key points.

Read it here

A letter from Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson to the Guardian was published this morning

A fierce debate within the government on how to tackle entrenched wealth inequality – possibly through a high pay commission or a tax on assets – is to be ignited by a report ordered by Harriet Harman, the Labour deputy leader and the minister responsible for equalities.

"Political parties fail to understand or address the root causes of the country's failing education system" writes Lynsey Hanley

Read an interview with Kate Pickett in the Radical Anthropology Journal

Divisions between rich and poor in Sheffield are growing wider - with the situation today worse than it was 40 years ago, a shock new report reveals.