Equality News

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5 November 2009
Equality, not education, is the key to individual transformation

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

17 May 2010
Excessive pay and bonuses in public sector under scrutiny

Coalition looking to implement pay ratios in public sector and to restrict bonuses...

22 May 2009
Fitter, happier, more productive

The recent speculative boom and financial crash have forced a rethink about the way we live now. As the bankers line up in front of the Treasury Select Committee, we can ponder our own behaviour. Did we really need that new car we put on the mortgage? What have we got to show for our "prudent" investments? What are our city breaks doing to the environment?

26 February 2009
Fred Goodwin's pension: It won't make him happier

Michael White discusses Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett's new book The Spirit Level in his blog on the Guardian website.

2 September 2009
Goodbye social democracy, hello economic democracy

Bill Kerry writes for Labour List about the limits of social democracy and the need for economic democracy.

22 July 2009
Greater equality of opportunity and social mobility will not end poverty

Read Bill Kerry's Oxfam blog

13 March 2009
Guardian editorial: the damning dossier

Read and comment on the Guardian's editorial about The Spirit Level.

 

 

21 January 2010
Harriet Harman puts class at the heart of election battle

Labour deputy leader to make inequality a key dividing line with Conservatives.

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22 January 2010
How economic democracy would have prevented the Cadbury sell-off

A letter in today's Guardian points out that employee ownership would have prevented the Cadbury sell-off.

8 October 2009
Inequality caused the 'broken society'

Read a report from the Guardian's Anne Perkins about our fringe event at the Conservative Party Conference yesterday.

11 March 2009
Inequality is bad for mental health

 

"It has been acknowledged for some time that poverty can be a trigger for poor mental health, but a new study published on Wednesday by the World Health Organisation (WHO) argues that it is inequality that has the mostprofound and far-reaching consequences for individuals and wider society. "

5 May 2009
Inequality is the root of our unhappiness
Former director of the Institute of Education Peter Mortimore, writing in today's Education Guardian.
12 October 2009
Inequality is the source of our schools gap

Read the Observer's Editorial

18 May 2009
Inequality makes us ill. And violent. And depressed.
Read a book review from the Canadian Globe and Mail.
12 March 2009
Inequality rise is to blame for 'broken society'
 "For some time now, a lot of people have been worried about our 'broken society' – worried about knife crime and youth violence, teenage births and drug use, childhood obesity and the breakdown of trust in our neighbourhoods.
25 February 2010
Inequality: a threat to social cohesion

Edmund Conway writing in the Daily Telegraph worries about the effects of inequality.

5 November 2009
Interview: Why inequality is bad for you

Read an interview with Kate Pickett in the Radical Anthropology Journal

11 February 2010
Labour is running up a down escalator to tackle inequality

Tackling society's inequalities is what Labour governments are supposed to be about, and this one has quietly redistributed billions worth of tax since 1997, much of it paid by those fatcat bankers, to alleviate the plight of the poorest.

How much has it got to show for it?

Read Michael White's Guardian article

8 May 2009
Labour's poverty of progress laid bare

"Inequality at levels not seen under Macmillan, Heath, Thatcher or Major. Real cuts in the incomes for those at the bottom of the pile. No progress in reducing child or pensioner poverty. A record number of working-age adults without children living below the breadline.

9 December 2009
Levelling the bankers' bonuses

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.

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