The Bishop gets it...
Submitted by Bill Kerry on 20 July 2010
Listen to Bishop Tom Butler as he highlights a new report from Newcastle University on Radio 4's Thought for the Day this morning.
"...reducing poverty alone isn't the total answer to deprived lives. For further research [The Spirit Level] reveals the fact that the degree of inequality in a society is a major factor in issues such as death and disease rates, teenage motherhood and levels of violence. For inequality changes the nature of relationships in society and the stake people feel that they have in it."
The message is clearly spreading....
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