Reducing inequality: If not now, then when?
As the campaign to raise funds for the Spirit Level documentary reaches its final week, support continues to flood in.
Inequality
“They are rebelling against society because they feel they haven’t got any options”
The Spirit Level ties income inequality to social problems; here, an ex-young offender argues youth crime is typically a response to material deprivation.
The Spirit Level Film: Bringing the message of equality to the screen
Katharine Round, Producer/Director of “The Spirit Level Film”, writes about how you can help bring the message about equality to the screen.
“You’ve never had it so good” has never been so wrong: Review of The Cost of Inequality
Carl Packman reviews Stewart Lansley’s “The Cost of Inequality,” and loves it.
Cable fails to provide a stick or carrot in the fight against obscene pay
Duncan Exley writes about Cable’s failure to properly provide a stick or carrot to back up his words about tackling high executive pay
Class, inequality and the state at the Fabian conference
Carl Packman reports back on the class, inequality and the state session at the Fabian Society New Year Conference.
Inequality must be ended to prevent another financial crisis
Stewart Lansley argues that high income inequality leads to economic slumps; we can only solve the latter if we deal with the former
For our economic health we need a one-off tax on the one per cent
Stewart Lansley argues that the crisis we are suffering is one of demand and inequality, and that we can solve both with a one-off redistribution of wealth.
To end inequality without redistribution of wealth, we should pay a living wage
Duncan Exley argues the lessons we should draw from the British Social Attitudes Survey are to push for a living wage and retain the 50p top rate of tax.
Unless pay gaps are reduced, we’ll end up with Victorian levels of inequality
Unless the trend towards greater inequality is halted, we may end up back at the levels of disparity “evident in Victorian England”, the High Pay Commission says.