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Editor at The New Yorker says she was fired after raising concerns over racial inequality and gender disparity

Erin Overbey tweeted that she was fired just one week after alleging The New Yorker editor-in-chief deliberately inserted errors into her work

The Independent UK

Industrial policy options for southern Africa: scenarios set out possibilities and risks

There is a need to transform the underlying economic principles of the economies in southern African countries to address the persistent challenges of severe poverty and unemployment.

The Conversation

When the choice is between poor-quality medicine and no medicine at all

Poverty drives the market in inferior medicines just as it drives other examples of inequality. A socially integrated approach is needed to fight the problem.

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Oh FFS: A Grim New Report Shows Just 10% Of Aussies Earn Nearly Half The Country’s Cash

Eating the rich is even less expensive than eating lettuce. Just sayin'.

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Surging rate of mental ill-health in young people and women shows need for reform, advocates say

A surge in mental health disorders among young people and women highlights a need for dramatic reform and steps to address rising inequality, advocates say.

ABC News

Why the Voting Age Needs to be Lowered to Sixteen

The time to address climate change and inequality is running out. Young people deserve to have our say—while we still can

The Walrus

How Inequality Hobbles Military Power

Divided Armies Struggle to Win

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South Africa's Thabo Mbeki at 80: admired on the continent more than at home

Thabo Mbeki, who succeeded Nelson Mandela as South Africa’s second post-apartheid president, celebrated his 80th birthday on 18 June 2022. Following Mandela’s era of multiracial and multicultural rainbowism, Mbeki had to squarely address the challenges of acute inequality and the numerous grievances of the black majority caused by colonialism and…

The Conversation

Schools can be a great resource for mental health in South Africa

In the face of deep inequality, unemployment, high rates of crime and violence, and the social and economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, the mental health trajectory for young South Africans looks bleak.

The Conversation

Cost of living: ‘Blood, sweat’ for a Seoul food delivery driver

As fuel prices rise and pay rates stay the same, a driver and labour rights leader is fighting increasing precarity.

Al Jazeera

Colombia's congress begins new session with ambitious reform agenda

Colombia's congress opens its new session on Wednesday, with a slate of ambitious tax-and-spend and other legislation on the horizon under incoming President-elect Gustavo Petro, intended to combat poverty and inequality.

Reuters

Wealth gap between richest 10% and middle-earners grows to record £1.2m

Gap has grown since 2008 despite relatively stable levels of inequality for decades, analysis finds

The Independent UK

New women’s health strategy for England aims to end decades of inequality

Among proposals to ‘reset the dial’ on women’s health are training for doctors and hubs across the NHS

The Guardian - UK

David Evans obituary

Other lives: Development economist who worked on the inequality and poverty impacts of trade liberalisation

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Evening Standard

How can we stop electric vehicles being just ‘middle-class cars’?

We caught up with Connected Kerb CEO Chris Pateman-Jones to find out how his start-up is looking to solve London’s charge inequality problem

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Tory economics: for haves, not for have-nots

Editorial: Whoever is the next prime minister will likely resurrect a form of capitalism that almost broke the economy in 2008

The Guardian - UK

Give me a pale male PM with great policies over a ‘diverse’ one reinforcing inequality

It’s good that institutions such as the Tory party have begun to reflect the nation’s diversity. But it’s not an end in itself. Show me the ideas

The Guardian - UK

Would-be Tory leaders don’t want to tackle social inequality. That’s a gift to Labour

Candidates are abandoning the ‘levelling up’ agenda – offering Starmer the chance to claim the strategic ground over Brexit, says Cambridge University professor Chris Bickerton

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The Hindu

Social evils will take time to go, have patience, says RSS chief to Dalit, OBC seers

Terming untouchability, disharmony and inequality as big problems of the Hindu society, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said that it would take time for alleviating these problems and until that happened patience and courage were required

Asharq Al-Awsat

Startups Eye Metaverse, NFTs, to Solve Africa’s Economic Woes

It might sound like science fiction, but a Nigerian-born tech entrepreneur thinks he has found a way for Africans to escape problems like inequality and bad governance - a virtual nation born online. His is among a number of African-led virtual projects that aim to help the world's poorest continent…

The Guardian - AU

If you want to be healthy in Australia today, be born to rich parents

No amount of social restrictions will fix healthcare until we address underlying inequality

The Guardian - UK

Average UK household £8,800 a year worse off than those in France or Germany

Thinktank blames inequality and poor productivity as CBI calls for investment policies to fuel growth

The Guardian - UK

On the street and online: social media becomes key to protest in Kenya

As elections near amid soaring debt and a cost-of-living crisis, grassroots activists are turning to social media to propel change

The Independent UK

Detroit cash bail reforms to strike at racial inequality

Michigan’s largest district court and bail reform advocates are announcing the settlement of a class-action lawsuit against bail practices in Detroit, where hundreds of defendants are jailed for no other reason than their inability to afford court-imposed bail

The Guardian - US

‘An inequality story’: Utah abortion ban will drive women further into poverty

Women already make 30% less than men in the state, with new restrictions affecting women of color and single mothers

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