The Latest Breaking News from Inequality

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 · Mar 28, 2023

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 · Mar 26, 2023

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 · Mar 24, 2023

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

The Guardian - UK · Mar 19, 2023

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.

Fortune · Mar 17, 2023

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 Conversation · Mar 16, 2023

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 Independent UK · Mar 16, 2023

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

The Guardian - UK · Mar 16, 2023

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

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

Bristol Post · Mar 15, 2023

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...

Reason · Mar 10, 2023