A new mapping project shows where different types of disadvantage are most prevalent. The picture is more varied and complex than many people think.
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Long before coronavirus hit Australia we were moving less between states and regions. Some worry about economic impacts, but a greater concern is inequality if some people find themselves ‘trapped’.
Artificial Intelligence can perpetuate existing social imbalances in a harmful manner. Can this undesirable scenario be avoided?
The child support grant, as a policy instrument, cannot work alone in ensuring that young people thrive and succeed.
State and local governments can’t do much about the rapid population growth in Melbourne, but they can take steps to reduce the costs of growing disparities between the outer suburbs and inner city.
A country’s tax policies say a lot about what it values – and some of America’s tend to promote inequality.
A national minimum wage could benefit young people who have jobs and stimulate those who have given up trying to find work. But those without work need additional help.
Research suggests union membership by default could help reduce income inequality and its associated social ills.
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.
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Associate professor, University of Sydney
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Lecturer, Federation University Australia
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Lecturer in Sport and Fitness, The Open University
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Senior Lecturer, University of Pretoria
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Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
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University Distinguished Professor, Michigan State University
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Lynton K. Caldwell Professor, Indiana University
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Political and Business Reporting Lecturer, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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Research Associate, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield, UCL
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Senior Lecturer in Geography, University of Sheffield
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Professor Emeritus, Economics & Finance, University of Houston-Clear Lake
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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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social scientist | human geographer, The University of Melbourne
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Research Professor in Contemporary British History, King's College London
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Academic Specialist (GIS Analyst), Community Indicators Victoria, McCaughey VicHealth Community Wellbeing Unit, The University of Melbourne
