The Latest Breaking News from Inequality

Earnings boom for bankers during pandemic fueling income inequality

And the future is 'bleak' for lower-income households, according to research

Wales Online · May 4, 2022

Abortion rollback risks erasing decades of economic gains for US women

Overturning Roe v. Wade risks widening economic inequality in the U.S., threatening decades of gains for women in places where abortion could be all but banned.

Tribune News Service · May 4, 2022

Pay rises for finance workers are deepening inequality, IFS says

While most workers face a real terms cut in earings finance professionals’ pay is outstripping inflation, the IFS found

The Independent UK · May 4, 2022

Health worries and Long Covid have seen 400,000 leave work - new report highlights impact of inequality and need for Levelling Up

Experts think around 400,000 people nationwide have stopped working during the pandemic due to ill health and Long Covid.

Chronicle Live · Apr 29, 2022

Nesta Cymru moves to new Cardiff University social sciences campus as it unveils 10 year strategy

Nesta is developing innovation solutions to some of society's biggest challenges from decarbonisation to inequality

Birmingham Post · Apr 28, 2022

In 2019 inequality was a big federal election issue. Now it’s off the radar

How does your area compare for housing stress, socioeconomic disadvantage and income? In the first of a series about Australian electorates, we look at inequality and wealth

The Guardian - AU · Apr 27, 2022

Twitter is a $44bn toy for billionaire Elon Musk to play with

Do not weep for Twitter, its users, or its investors. Weep for the entire chain of bad political decisions that allowed us to get to this point

The Guardian - US · Apr 26, 2022

Global growth engines sputtering

The International Monetary Fund's revised World Economic Outlook (WEO) is sobering. It is rare for the organisation to revise down sharply its projections for economic growth just one quarter into the calendar year. Yet in this case, it has done so for 86% of its 190 member countries, resulting in…

Bangkok Post · Apr 25, 2022

Democracy loses its glow for South Africans amid persistent inequality

South Africans believed that the introduction of democracy in 1994 would transform their lives for the better through equality of opportunities. This hasn’t happened.

The Conversation · Apr 25, 2022

Funding of up to £500 available to South Lanarkshire community organisations

The money is from the Lived Experience Fund and groups who tackle poverty and inequality can apply for funding

Daily Record · Apr 23, 2022