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This Florida church is too political, IRS complaint says

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Allendale United Methodist Church bills itself as a “social justice, anti-racist, LGBTQ affirming congregation of believers.” Its pastor, the Rev. Andy Oliver, has led the way, speaking out on inequality and perceived injustices behind and beyond the pulpit.

Tribune News Service

Humza Yousaf must make reversing Scotland's drug shame a top priority

Record View says there’s a big difference between talking and delivering on health, education, inequality – and drugs policy.

Daily Record

New National Minimum Wage rise starting this weekend set to give nearly two million workers pay boost

Hourly pay rates will rise to £10.42 for workers aged 23 and over from April 1.

Daily Record

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Editorial: The medical debt burden

The legacy of more than two centuries of inequality that haunts Virginia and other Southern states affects us more than we may realize.

Tribune News Service

Living wage increase to benefit around 1.7 million workers

The lowest-paid workers are set to enjoy a ‘rare’ real-terms pay boost, says think tank.

The Independent UK

Welcome to powerhouse London, the model for inclusive start-ups

Major investor says businesses need to look beyond success and embrace the city’s inequality. Lucy Tobin gets the lowdown

Evening Standard

Think salary transparency will cause outright war among your workers? Think again.

But it's bad news for workplaces where salary transparency unveils inequality

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‘Against all odds’: Field Museum explains evolution of social inequality through Balkan artifacts

With more than 700 pieces from 26 different institutions in 11 countries, ‘First Kings of Europe’ details humanity’s journey from equality to hierarchy.

Chicago Sun-Times

National survey on attitudes toward domestic violence shows widespread misunderstanding of issue

Almost half of Australians incorrectly believe women and men equally commit domestic violence according to a major survey which shows "extremely troubling" community attitudes towards violence against women.

ABC News

Inequality starts before birth – so child benefits should too

Providing a safety net from ‘cradle to grave’ is already too late. Time to revive an old Labour policy that can make things fairer, says Mary Reader of the London School of Economics

The Guardian - UK

Brazil has a new biggest favela, and not in Rio de Janeiro

For the first time since poverty, lack of opportunity and economic inequality caused favelas to mushroom across many of the nation’s cities, Brazil’s biggest favela isn’t in Rio de Janeiro

The Independent UK

From the cradle to the grave, there is something rotten in the state of welfare

Benefits policies are simply aggravating the inequalities that shape British lives

The Guardian - UK

Russia faces shrinking middle class, rising inequality, study finds

Russia's middle class will shrink as social inequality grows over coming years, an economic study conducted by Russian experts suggested, as sanctions against Moscow and limited growth potential scupper development prospects.

Reuters

Populism triumphs as election looms

Although the campaign season for Thailand's much-anticipated election has only just begun, populism has already become the runaway winner. All of the contesting parties have come up with a plethora of populist pledges to woo voters. That populism has triumphed in Thai politics bears multiple longer-term implications.

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The Week

Three years since lockdown began: how Britain changed

The UK’s first national lockdown was introduced on 23 March 2020 in an attempt to reduce the spread of the deadly Covid-19 virus.

Daily Mirror

Alison Hammond beams as she's wins gong at Burberry British Diversity Awards

This Morning host Alison Hammond has been recognised for her work highlighting racism, inequality and injustice as she won the Media Campion in the Public Eye gong at the Burberry British Diversity Awards

The Guardian - UK

Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond review – how the rich keep the poor down

A Pulitzer-winning sociologist argues that the United States’s gross inequality is no accident

The Guardian - UK

The Patriarchs by Angela Saini review – why it’s still a man’s world

Saini’s stirring, all too timely study of patriarchy asks how such inequality took hold, and persists, even while some matrilineal societies flourish

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Fortune

U.S. wage inequality shrank dramatically during the pandemic

New research shows how the pandemic’s unprecedented combination of factors favored low-paid, younger, less educated, female, Black, and Hispanic workers.

The Conversation

Robodebt not only broke the laws of the land – it also broke laws of mathematics

Friday marked the end of the public hearings for the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme. They painted a picture of a catastrophic program that was legally and ethically indefensible – an example of how technological overreach, coupled with dereliction of duty can amount to immense suffering for ordinary people.

The Independent UK

Don't leave Global South out of green tech growth, UN warns

The majority of developing nations are set to miss out on the economic benefits of booming green technologies, slowing progress toward their climate goals and widening the inequality gap between rich and poor countries, a United Nations report warned Thursday

The Guardian - UK

UK life expectancy growing at slower rate than rest of G7, research shows

Widening inequality blamed for UK lagging behind all other countries in G7 except the US

Bristol Post

Bristol's richest and poorest neighbourhoods revealed in new interactive map

Bristol has one of the highest income-inequality gaps in the country

Reason

Wages Are Rising for Low-Skill Workers, Driving Down Poverty and Inequality

Plus: "Flipping the proverbial bird is a God-given" right, administrative state abuses, and more...

Al Jazeera

Lebanon government failing to uphold ‘right to electricity’: HRW

Human Rights Watch says Lebanon’s electricity crisis has exacerbated poverty and inequality.

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