The Latest Breaking News from Inequality

Mini-Budget measures will likely increase inequality, says global lender

There is international pressure on Kwasi Kwarteng to change course after his mini-budget spooked the markets with its package of tax cuts and increased borrowing.

Every five years the Productivity Commission is charged with examining everything that can be done to lift Australia’s productivity.

With Truss fuelling poverty and inequality, Starmer needs to show he’s ready for a titanic battle, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

Human rights campaigners have criticised the Football Association’s (FA) OneLove campaign, saying it does not do enough to address inequality and discrimination in Qatar.

The public is supportive of Government cost-of-living intervention at a similar scale to its actions during the pandemic, research suggests.

Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates combined characteristic optimism with sobering questions about persistent gender inequality and hunger at an event the Gateses’ foundation convened on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly

In 2019, former UN Special Rapporteur Philip Alston said he was worried we were “stumbling zombie-like into a digital welfare dystopia.” He had been researching how government agencies around the world were turning to automated decision-making systems (ADS) to cut costs, increase efficiency and target resources. ADS are technical systems…

Over the past 14 years, older homeowners have continued to benefit – creating an unpleasant form of economic progress, says sociologist and political economist William Davies