Links to Useful Sites

The following are sites with information & research related to inequality which we hope you find useful and informative:

United Kingdom & General

The Equality Trust interest group - sign up page
http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/EqualityTIG/

Sheffield Equality Group
http://www.sheffieldequalitytrust.org.uk/

London Equality Group
http://londonequality.org.uk/

Economic and Social Data Rankings
http://www.dataranking.com/index.cgi?LG=e

Information on UK inequality statistics
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=332

Institute of Fiscal Studies
http://www.ifs.org.uk/

New Economics Foundation
http://neweconomics.org/gen/

Citizens Advice Bureau
http://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/

Sustainable Development Commission
http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/

Public attitudes to economic inequality
http://www.jrf.org.uk/KNOWLEDGE/findings/socialpolicy/2097.asp

The Poverty Site for UK statistics on poverty and social exclusion.
http://www.poverty.org.uk/

Where do you fit in?
http://www.ifs.org.uk/wheredoyoufitin/

Wikipedia on measures of income inequality
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_metrics

 

The rest of Europe

ECINEQ (Society for the Study of Economic Inequality)
http://www.ecineq.org/

Equalities Study Centre, University College, Dublin.
http://www.ucd.ie/esc/index.html

Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) data on income distribution in different countries.
http://www.lisproject.org/

Polarization and Conflict
http://www.polarizationandconflict.org/


United States & Canada

Too Much: a commentary on excess and inequality
http://toomuchonline.org/

IPS Program on Inequality and the Common Good
http://ips-dc.org/resources/EI-Year-End-Appeal.pdf

Bridging the income gap
http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/gap/

Class Action: building bridges across the class divide.
http://www.classism.org/

Explorations in Social Inequality
http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/strat.html

Inequality.org
http://www.demos.org/inequality/

Population Health Forum
http://depts.washington.edu/eqhlth/

United for a Fair Economy
http://www.faireconomy.org/

US Centre on Budget and Policy Priorities
http://www.cbpp.org/pubs/povinc.htm