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Well done, Keir Starmer, for taking on private schools’ tax breaks – but you can go further

Though ending charitable status is safe ground for Labour, only structural change will bridge education inequality, says the Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

The Guardian - UK

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine to tackle health inequality

The new project is aiming to bring communities and public organisations together

Liverpool Echo

Scottish MPs slam UK Government over plans to clamp down on workers' right to strike

The Tories are considering measures which could allow employers to sue unions and sack workers if they did not provide a certain level of service.

Daily Record

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Housing made rich Australians richer, leaving renters and the young behind – here’s how to fix it

Rising housing costs have dramatically widened the gap between rich and poor. If we want to address inequality, we will have to fix housing.

The New Daily

How housing made rich Australians 50% richer, leaving renters and the young behind – and how to fix it

Compared to the rest of the world, income inequality is not particularly high in Australia, nor is it getting much worse – until you include housing.

The Conversation

China’s Covid generation: the surging inequality behind Xi’s U-turn

Lockdowns have often been more relentless in rural areas, upending the education of millions and blocking social mobility

Financial Times

Gender diversity on corporate boards can improve organizational performance

Gender inequality on corporate boards of directors is still an issue in Canada, despite diversity disclosure rules. Since 2014, business regulators in Canada have required companies to disclose the number of women on their boards in an effort to increase gender diversity.

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Chile's Boric pardons 12 convicted after 2019 protests

Chile's President Gabriel Boric on Friday pardoned 12 people connected with widespread protests against inequality in 2019 that left more than 30 dead.

Reuters

Commentary: Fears about AI are overblown. ChatGPT is a net gain for society

Artificial intelligence, or AI, has the potential to revolutionize many aspects of our society, but it also has the potential to be harmful. As AI becomes more advanced and widespread, it raises ethical concerns about how it will impact jobs, privacy and inequality. Overall, it is important to carefully consider…

Chicago Tribune

In defence of the 1970s, the 'decade that taste forgot'

As an expert in media and cultural studies, I once appeared in a television series about technology in the home during the last three decades of the 20th century.

The Conversation

Why do the rich get richer — even during global crises?

Every 30 hours, the pandemic spawned a new billionaire, while pushing a million people into poverty. Here’s why.

Al Jazeera

Council votes to study reparations for Black Bostonians

The Boston City Council has voted to form a new commission to study how it can provide reparations for and other forms of atonement to Black Bostonians for the city's role in slavery and its legacy of inequality

The Independent UK

TMR 2022: Is online education furthering inequality?

How did India’s education sector cope with the disruption of the pandemic? Did the resultant push to conduct classes online affect marginalised groups adversely? What lessons did the industry learn?

Newslaundry

The pandemic showed us that poverty is a policy choice – we must do better

The poorest 20% of households are aided significantly by services like education and health. But the stage-three tax cuts threatens their funding

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Child nutrition programmes can feed inequality: model from South Africa shows how context shapes lives

Interventions to improve nutrition, especially for children and pregnant women, can be critical for health, physical growth and cognitive development, enabling better lives and futures. Reams of policy papers will attest to the fact that if a government or a donor spends substantially on nutrition, the return on their investments…

The Conversation

African debt: how to break unequal relationships in financing deals

Africa is facing some impossibly difficult choices when it comes to financing its development. Countries need hundreds of billions of dollars each year to meet their climate, poverty, unemployment and inequality challenges. They cannot meet these needs only from their own resources, grants and concessional sources. They will have to…

France 24

South African star choreographer Dada Masilo comes to Paris with 'The Sacrifice'

From "Giselle" to "Swan Lake" and "The Rite of Spring", South Africa's Dada Masilo deconstructs classic ballets to tell a new story, far from the stereotypical damsel in distress but that of modern-day people who suffer modern-day issues such as homophobia, gender inequality and racism. She's performed her creations all…

The New Daily

Alan Kohler: Why the Voice is an economic as well as moral issue

A First Nations Voice is fundamentally a moral question and a symbol of recognition, but it is also economic and political.

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Who creates more wealth in society – bankers or nurses?

Letters: Disgraceful inequality will continue to grow if we think of people’s worth in binary terms, says Canon Andrew Lightbown. Plus Prof Roger Bayston on the fickle perception of public service workers

The Guardian - UK

Want a better restaurant table? Well, so does everyone else, buddy, you will have to pay for it

A new app allows users to upgrade where they sit – for a price. It is just another case of inequality being rubbed in your face

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Labour’s devolution plans: regional inequality is a blight

Editorial: Britain is heading in the wrong direction, and radical change is needed in how money and power works

The Conversation

Why you're less likely to get rich these days if your parents aren't already wealthy

Improvements in living standards over generations have been taken for granted in recent history, but these days young people are looking worse off than their parents in one major area: wealth.

The Guardian - AU

Support for Jacinda Ardern and NZ Labour sinks to lowest since 2017, poll shows

Labour and Ardern were immensely popular during the pandemic but inflation and deepening social inequality has changed their fortunes

Evening Standard

‘Burnout, inequality and poor service – the real outcome of the four-day week’

We’ve all heard the arguments in favour. Here, recruitment expert and CEO of hackajob Mark Chaffey on why he sees the four-day week as a flawed concept

The Conversation

Jiang Zemin propelled China's economic rise in the world, leaving his successors to deal with the massive inequality that followed

By the summer of 1989, a series of problems were threatening China’s stability. Soaring inflation was undermining the economy at home while the violent suppression of Tiananmen Square demonstrations had left it largely a pariah state abroad. Yet within a few years the nation rebounded – beginning two decades of…

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