The Latest Breaking News from Inequality

Dumfries and Galloway public health chief warns food and fuel poverty could lead to more winter deaths

Valerie White expressed “grave concerns” over growing income inequality fuelling excess mortality in low income households

Daily Record · Oct 10, 2022

Ghana and the IMF: debt restructuring must go hand-in-hand with managing finances better

Ghana is struggling with managing its debt, 20-year high inflation, a weak currency, and rising inequality. For example, inflation rose to 33.9% in August 2022 from 9.7% a year earlier, while the cedi has depreciated by 41% year-to-date against the US dollar. These vulnerabilities have been worsened by the aftershocks…

The Conversation · Oct 10, 2022

Racial inequality ‘hard-wired into housing system’ as UK rent soars

One in six black and minority ethnic renters has seen an increase in their rent in the past month

The Independent UK · Oct 9, 2022

The Guardian view on Truss, Kwarteng and inequality: out of touch, out of time

Editorial: Michael Gove is doing the country a service by resisting a government with no mandate

The Guardian - UK · Oct 4, 2022

Three physicists win the Nobel for work on quantum entanglement

The Nobel Prize in Physics went to Alain Aspect, John Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger for their experiments on photon entanglement.

Inverse · Oct 4, 2022

White House hunger summit failed to expand ‘right to food’, UN expert says

UN special rapporteur praises step in right direction but says ‘structural inequality is underlying cause of hunger’

The Guardian - US · Oct 4, 2022

Hurricane Ian could worsen inequality

Poor and non-white communities are often hardest hit — but FEMA disproportionately aids whiter, wealthier areas

Salon · Oct 4, 2022

How Hurricane Ian and other disasters are becoming a growing source of inequality – even among the middle class

Friendswood, Texas, is the type of community that one might think of as a “best case scenario” when it comes to recovering from a disaster.

The Conversation · Oct 3, 2022

Tories have presided over shameful health inequality

Letters: Dr Eddie Morris on why the white paper on health disparities is vital and should not be scrapped. Plus letters from John Boswell and Emily Robinson

The Guardian - UK · Oct 2, 2022

Poverty, unemployment are demons in today’s world: RSS

India should address economic inequality, says general secretary Hosabale

The Hindu · Oct 2, 2022