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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?
This global conference will set out how cities should develop over the next 20 years, tackling some of humankind’s toughest issues.
Here’s how social and political power can come together in cities, to counteract the focus on short-term profit.
Inequality for those left behind is a necessary byproduct of rewarding those who excel.
A “buy now, pay later” model is well suited to financing higher education. Commercial bank loans are not viable. Government-backed loans with income-contingent repayment are the fair solution.
Reintroducing selective education will not solve deep economic and social inequalities.
One in four people experience a mental health problem in any give year.
Problems with who gets access to university date back to the 19th century.
It’s a project that creates benefits for Melbourne’s western suburbs and the state as a whole. But the inner-city elite don’t like it and recent experience suggests their opinion holds sway.
An analysis of what’s known as the Gini coefficient offers some clues on what makes one society more unequal in terms of income than another.
The state government of Rio de Janeiro has declared a state of “public calamity”, as it struggles to cope with severe economic and social crises.
New figures reveal inequality in Britain and the effects of the redistributive tax and benefits system.
Much like the latest Zack Snyder film, the inter-generational war being played out in the press seems largely unnecessary.
Multiple times over the centuries, climate issues caused Pueblo farming to collapse, taking the establishment down with it. New research suggests there are parallels with American inequalities today.
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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
