The Latest Breaking News from Inequality

Tackling inequality key to climate fight - study

Tackling inequality is key to securing the public support needed to overhaul the global economy and reverse climate change, an update to the landmark 50-year-old computer simulation of environmental stress has found.

Reuters · Sep 5, 2022

Barbara Ehrenreich never stopped trying to change the world

We’ve just lost one of the world’s finest writers about inequality and class – and the business of being alive in the United States today. Barbara Ehrenreich, best known for her “classic of social justice literature”, Nickel and Dimed, died on Thursday, aged 81.

The Conversation · Sep 5, 2022

More than 20,000 back stinging call for new PM to resolve WASPI dispute - letter in full

Members of the Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) campaign have called on Ms Truss and Ms Sunak to rethink and help an estimated 3.6 million women born in the 1950s impacted by the shake-up

Daily Mirror · Sep 4, 2022

Morning mail: tax cuts to ‘turbocharge inequality’, parental leave call, sea level rise locked in

Tuesday: A new analysis shows the $243bn in tax cuts, due to start in 2024, would benefit Australia’s richest 1% as much as the poorest 65% combined. Plus: moon rocket launch delayed

The Guardian - AU · Aug 29, 2022

We cannot squander this moment. Australia must tackle the structural issues behind women’s inequality

The post-pandemic lessons of care feminism seem to have sunk in, but if we do not seize the moment now, we may waste a historic opportunity

The Guardian - AU · Aug 29, 2022

Can Western "culture" survive its myths?

We all know our society faces existential crisis. Rethinking our cultural values might just help us survive it

Salon · Aug 28, 2022

A £15 national minimum wage won't tackle the cost of living crisis — an economist explains why

Since it was introduced 23 years ago, the national minimum wage has raised the incomes of millions of Britons and reduced inequality.

The Conversation · Aug 26, 2022

In climate jobs era, here’s what Inflation Reduction Act means for Illinois workers

This new climate jobs stimulus will tip the scales and help us tackle the climate crisis while beginning to reverse 40 years of wage stagnation and widening racial inequality.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 24, 2022

One in 10 Bay Area neighborhoods is ‘highly segregated’ enclave of White wealth, new report says

While California's Bay Area has long been championed as one of America’s most diverse regions, a new report describes it as deeply segregated with pockets of concentrated White wealth that are driving socioeconomic inequality.

Tribune News Service · Aug 20, 2022

Mapping inequality in Dutch colonial-era Indonesia

In the early 20th century, the region now known as Indonesia – then the Dutch East Indies – was Europe’s largest colony after India. It was a major producer of tropical commodities, like rubber and sugar, which were drivers of the global economy.

The Conversation · Aug 18, 2022