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Why do the rich get richer — even during global crises?

Every 30 hours, the pandemic spawned a new billionaire, while pushing a million people into poverty. Here’s why.

Al Jazeera

Council votes to study reparations for Black Bostonians

The Boston City Council has voted to form a new commission to study how it can provide reparations for and other forms of atonement to Black Bostonians for the city's role in slavery and its legacy of inequality

The Independent UK

TMR 2022: Is online education furthering inequality?

How did India’s education sector cope with the disruption of the pandemic? Did the resultant push to conduct classes online affect marginalised groups adversely? What lessons did the industry learn?

Newslaundry

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The pandemic showed us that poverty is a policy choice – we must do better

The poorest 20% of households are aided significantly by services like education and health. But the stage-three tax cuts threatens their funding

The Guardian - AU

Child nutrition programmes can feed inequality: model from South Africa shows how context shapes lives

Interventions to improve nutrition, especially for children and pregnant women, can be critical for health, physical growth and cognitive development, enabling better lives and futures. Reams of policy papers will attest to the fact that if a government or a donor spends substantially on nutrition, the return on their investments…

The Conversation

African debt: how to break unequal relationships in financing deals

Africa is facing some impossibly difficult choices when it comes to financing its development. Countries need hundreds of billions of dollars each year to meet their climate, poverty, unemployment and inequality challenges. They cannot meet these needs only from their own resources, grants and concessional sources. They will have to…

The Conversation

South African star choreographer Dada Masilo comes to Paris with 'The Sacrifice'

From "Giselle" to "Swan Lake" and "The Rite of Spring", South Africa's Dada Masilo deconstructs classic ballets to tell a new story, far from the stereotypical damsel in distress but that of modern-day people who suffer modern-day issues such as homophobia, gender inequality and racism. She's performed her creations all…

France 24

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Alan Kohler: Why the Voice is an economic as well as moral issue

A First Nations Voice is fundamentally a moral question and a symbol of recognition, but it is also economic and political.

The New Daily

Who creates more wealth in society – bankers or nurses?

Letters: Disgraceful inequality will continue to grow if we think of people’s worth in binary terms, says Canon Andrew Lightbown. Plus Prof Roger Bayston on the fickle perception of public service workers

The Guardian - UK

Want a better restaurant table? Well, so does everyone else, buddy, you will have to pay for it

A new app allows users to upgrade where they sit – for a price. It is just another case of inequality being rubbed in your face

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Labour’s devolution plans: regional inequality is a blight

Editorial: Britain is heading in the wrong direction, and radical change is needed in how money and power works

The Guardian - UK

Why you're less likely to get rich these days if your parents aren't already wealthy

Improvements in living standards over generations have been taken for granted in recent history, but these days young people are looking worse off than their parents in one major area: wealth.

The Conversation

Support for Jacinda Ardern and NZ Labour sinks to lowest since 2017, poll shows

Labour and Ardern were immensely popular during the pandemic but inflation and deepening social inequality has changed their fortunes

The Guardian - AU

‘Burnout, inequality and poor service – the real outcome of the four-day week’

We’ve all heard the arguments in favour. Here, recruitment expert and CEO of hackajob Mark Chaffey on why he sees the four-day week as a flawed concept

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Jiang Zemin propelled China's economic rise in the world, leaving his successors to deal with the massive inequality that followed

By the summer of 1989, a series of problems were threatening China’s stability. Soaring inflation was undermining the economy at home while the violent suppression of Tiananmen Square demonstrations had left it largely a pariah state abroad. Yet within a few years the nation rebounded – beginning two decades of…

France 24

World AIDS Day: Global inequalities pause years of progress on fighting epidemic

World AIDS Day is dedicated to raising awareness and remembering those who lost their lives to the illness. Although the world has come a long way in terms of both destigmatising and treating HIV/AIDS, much remains to be done. The United Nations says different forms of inequality are still preventing…

The Guardian - UK

One of us is a millionaire, the other a care worker. The cruel divide between rich and poor disgusts us both

This cost of living crisis is disastrous for one of us and will barely touch the other. The best answer is a wealth tax, say millionaire investor Julia Davies and care worker Winsome Hill

The Conversation

New grant will fund The Conversation partnership on critical research into COVID recovery, net zero, cities and levelling up and inequality

The world has changed in manifold ways since the height of the pandemic – and research evidence can help governments respond to them. In the last few years, homeworking has become the new normal, there’s been a disturbing increase in mental health problems, and millions have suffered the devastating effects…

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Black and minoritised ethnic communities at disproportionate risk of homelessness in the UK

In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, there has been a heightened awareness of ethnic inequality in the UK. Despite some recent studies on housing conditions in the context of the pandemic, little attention has been paid to how racial inequality and homelessness intersect.

The Conversation

Ending HIV as a public health threat – 3 essential reads

In 2014 the United Nations set an ambitious goal: to end the AIDS pandemic by the year 2030.

Tribune News Service

Tyler Cowen: Fight poverty, not income inequality

Wealth and income inequality have recently gone down in the U.S. and other parts of the West, and the decline has been going on for the better part of the last decade. Yet it is not clear, to me at least, whether this is something to celebrate.

Tribune News Service

Atlanta has the highest income inequality in the nation, Census data shows

Atlanta has the highest income inequality among large U.S. cities, according to recent data from the United States Census Bureau. Driving much of Atlanta’s income inequality, experts say, is the city’s entrenched racial disparities which took root generations ago.

Salon

Income inequality comes for your health

Income inequality has soared with the pandemic, providing incriminating evidence that it kills

The Independent UK

Fire union set up sections due to ‘discrimination, harassment and inequality’

The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has acknowledged ‘extremely alarming’ reported incidents of racism and misogyny.

Fortune

Beauty A.I. has inherent racial bias—but it doesn't have to

Because A.I. has been, historically, trained on non-diverse imagery and data, its ability to recognize darker skin tones is, at best, unreliable, and at worse, non-existent.

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