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The UK government has an option to act boldly after Rishi Sunak’s latest budget.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has delivered his second pandemic budget for the Conservatives.
Economists estimate the tax on households worth over $50 million could bring in $3 trillion over 10 years, but it will run into constitutional challenges.
Since the revolution, Tunisians’ call for “bread, freedom and social justice” have fallen on deaf ears.
Despite repeated pledges to improve diversity, data and industry testimony shows that there are fewer people from minority backgrounds getting jobs in the film and TV industries.
Thousands of workers at meat- and poultry-processing plants have contracted COVID-19, and hundreds have died. A legal scholar recommends ways to make their jobs safer.
Entrenched inequality in most of Latin America has led to worsening poverty rates and increasing violence and instability/
The US mustn’t make the mistake of tackling these threats separately – or of trying to take a unilateral approach.
Mining is not just a physical engineering process. It requires social engineering as well.
Plans are being adopted and resolutions made, but moving forward means facing difficult truths about the past.
One recommendation to fix inequity in Australia is for the government to fund non-government schools to the same degree as government schools, while banning them from charging fees.
Whites lived well under apartheid and it is not absurd for black leaders to want all to live in the same way.
Since the pandemic began, we’ve surveyed ordinary people to see how they’re coping. People from poorer backgrounds, ethnic minorities and young people are suffering most.
The key is ‘capability’, and the tips come from New Zealand.
Persistent educational inequalities are a feature of schools, too – and schools and homeschooling operate in close relation to each other.
Adopting a universal basic income requires a fundamental restructuring of the existing social safety net in Canada, and would not necessarily conquer income inequality and poverty.
A food policy researcher helps make sense of the lexicon of US food policy terms, and explains how they relate to racial justice.
The climate is changing and extreme weather disasters are becoming increasingly frequent and severe. It’s more important than ever to examine who is bearing the brunt of this change.
Taking part in sport at university can bring huge benefits.
Top contributors
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Pro Vice-Chancellor: Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director: Southern Centre for Inequality Studies., University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Peter Whiteford is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
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Visiting Senior Fellow in History, UNSW Sydney
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Deputy Director at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Part-Time Professor of Economics, The New School
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Emeritus Professor, Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Distinguished Reserach Professor, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Epidemiology, University of York
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Senior lecturer, The University of Edinburgh
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Dean of Business School, University of Southern Queensland
