Research suggests union membership by default could help reduce income inequality and its associated social ills.
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Governments' lack of response to rising inequality is not a problem of knowledge or public support. The problem is that those whose needs are being ignored must find a way to make themselves heard.
Children growing up in the most disadvantaged suburbs also lack the social opportunities to develop skills and aspirations that would improve their prospects in life.
Lots of things have happened in a century, but poverty has proven persistently hard to treat.
The largest cities in Australia and the US are both the richest and the most likely to push out low-income earners. Having cities of all sizes will increase people's choices of where to live and work.
While it is true that the poorest residents of the city are not connected to the piped water network, neither are the richest. Then what causes water inequalities?
Those on low incomes get less back from home improvement schemes than they pay in government charges.
Five years after Superstorm Sandy, we see how disadvantaged social groups suffered more from the storm before and after – much as we're seeing in Hurricanes Harvey and Maria.
Protests are raising tensions in Africa's most populous country, with agitators and federal troops clashing on the streets. But is Nigeria on the brink of another civil war?
Many Canadian teachers worry about how to incorporate Indigenous content into the classroom. For one sociology professor, finding Indigenous mentorship was richly rewarding.
The neediest suburbs get a much poorer deal in Sydney than in Melbourne. A new study provides a suburb-by-suburb breakdown of state investment, including what facilities and services have been funded.
A synthesis centre in Africa would massively improve the ability of researchers to understand complex scientific problems.
Elite exam schools are some of the least diverse public schools in the US. Here's how colleges like Harvard could teach high schools like Stuyvesant to improve their admissions process.
Addressing social and health inequalities from pollution is no longer a priority at the EPA. What did the Office of Environmental Justice do and what will happen if it's shut down?
Our big cities increase incomes faster than population growth, but most residents miss out on the extra income growth. Creating multiple centres of activity may help make bigger better for everyone.
New ONS data indicate that the UK's poorest households are doing better and the richest are worse off. But this isn't the full picture.
A guide to steering your family away from a dialogue of the deaf about poverty and inequality this festive season.
A professor takes us back more than 20 years, to when struggling white working-class voters in Oregon were convinced that a conservative social agenda would help bring back timber jobs.
Demands being made by protesting students in South Africa purport to support the poor. But the most marginalised young people in the country will not benefit from free higher education.
How can conversations around race, class and gender be allowed back into classrooms without becoming emotionally harmful and divisive?
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Senior Lecturer in Design and Computation, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, College of Business, government & Law, Flinders University
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Director, Henry Halloran Trust, University of Sydney
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Research Fellow, Sydney Democracy Network, University of Sydney
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PhD Candidate, Macquarie University
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Teaching Fellow, Philosophy, UCL
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Lecturer, Federation University Australia
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Affiliate Research Associate, University of Glasgow
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Vice Chancellor's Fellow at Victoria University and Adjunct Professor of Economics, Victoria University
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Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
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Professor of Developmental Psychology, City, University of London
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Professor of Comparative Political Science and Democracy Research at the Humboldt University Berlin; Associate of the Sydney Democracy Network, University of Sydney; Director of Research Unit Democracy: Structures, Performance, Challenges, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
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Senior Lecturer in Sport Studies, University of Northampton
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Professor of Energy and Climate Policy, University of Leeds
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London
