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US school voucher programs have caught on – but are they funneling public dollars in private schools?

In the last two years, more than 20 states have started or expanded voucher programs, seizing on frustration with pandemic schooling and culture wars

The Guardian - US

Tackling inequality key to climate fight

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.

The Hindu

Tackling inequality key to climate fight - study

Reuters

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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

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

‘People don’t want to hear about it’: how the pandemic shaped Sweden’s politics

Inequality and national identity are high on the agenda as the country votes. But few want to heed Covid’s lessons

The Guardian - UK

Chile's constitution vote puts Andean country at historic crossroads

Chileans are set for a historic decision on Sunday: stick with a market-friendly constitution dating back to military dictator Augusto Pinochet or approve a progressive new text that promises to shake up the Andean country's political and social fabric.

Reuters

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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

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.

The Conversation

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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.

Tribune News Service

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.

The Conversation

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 Guardian - UK

‘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

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The Hindu

The moral failings of the developmental state

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

Bangkok Post

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".

The Guardian - UK

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

The National (Scotland)

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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