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Google gives 40 black-led UK start-ups share of £3m

The tech giant's Black Founders Fund aims to tackle racial inequality in venture capital funding

Birmingham Post

Pro-American Propaganda on Social Media Had Little Impact—Just Like Russian Propaganda on Social Media

Plus: Chinese censorship targets feminists, a new view of income inequality, and more...

Reason

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

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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

The jostling winners in a dog-eats-dog high inflation world

The cost of living is increasing at its fastest rate since 1990. Inequality means more status competition, as people jostle in a high-stakes economy.

Newsroom.co.nz

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

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.

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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

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

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

‘Some people must be earning millions’: inequality in the UK’s highest-earning constituency

The pay of the top 1% of earners is rising fast, while many in the Cities of London and Westminster are struggling

The Guardian - UK

The moral failings of the developmental state

All politicians in India promise development, yet the state apparatus and political factions in control cause inequality

The Hindu

Seoul to ban ‘Parasite’-type basement homes after storm deaths

After at least four people drowned in basement homes during the worst storm to lash Seoul in more than a century, South Korea’s capital city is planning to phase out such dwellings that came to symbolise yawning inequality in the Oscar-winning film "Parasite".

Bangkok Post

Serena Williams’ farewell an eloquent acknowledgement of biological inequality

Williams’s career is coming to an end before it would if she were a male player, simply because she must choose between tennis and having more children

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Scotland's attainment figures 'very poor', Green MSP admits

SCOTLAND’S attainment gap figures are “very poor”, a Scottish Green MSP has admitted.

ABC News

Gold Coast rental market reveals gender inequality as more women face homelessness

With more and more older women facing homelessness, support services are warning of a critical shortfall in housing supply. This grandmother has found a short-term solution, but she's one of the lucky ones.

The Hindu

The fight for fiscal autonomy

The erosion of fiscal autonomy does not bode well for our federal structure and will thwart the growth of developed States

The Guardian - UK

I love Cabaret – but watching the Weimar Republic-set musical suddenly feels a little too immersive

The new stage version of the musical is a joy – but today’s spiralling inflation and fierce inequality make it too close to the bone, writes Zoe Williams

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The Conversation

Women have always trailed men in research output: how COVID made the situation worse

The under-representation of women in research is well documented. Emerging evidence suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated this inequality and disrupted the research enterprise globally.

France 24

Ex-rebel Gustavo Petro sworn in as Colombia's first leftist president

Colombia’s first leftist president was sworn into office Sunday, promising to fight inequality and heralding a turning point in the history of a country haunted by a long war between the government and guerrilla groups.

WEKU

Ex-rebel sworn in as Colombia's president in historic shift

Colombia's first leftist president will be sworn into office Sunday, promising to fight inequality and heralding a turning point in the history of the country.

Reuters

Former rebel Petro takes office in Colombia promising peace and equality

Gustavo Petro on Sunday became Colombia's first leftist president, pledging to unite the polarized country in the fight against inequality and climate change and achieve peace with leftist rebels and crime gangs.

The Conversation

Racism in South Africa: why the ANC has failed to dismantle patterns of white privilege

One of the sources of social discontent in post-apartheid South Africa is the legacy of white racism. This toxic legacy is evident in racialised poverty and inequality.

ABC News

More women facing hunger than men as gender gap widens for food insecurity, report says

A CARE International report finds 150 million more women than men were food insecure in 2021 — that's eight times higher than in 2018 — as the pandemic, climate change and the war in Ukraine affect global food supply chains.

The New Daily

Alan Kohler: Labor must abandon the Stage 3 tax cuts. Big government must be funded

Relying on central banks to support growth by printing money is clearly not viable because of what that does to inequality. Government will have to step up.

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