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Canadians' publicly funded post-secondary education system has been eroded over time, diminishing the promise it once held to protect people from poverty. We should demand change.
In politics, what lifts you up can drag you down. To avoid that, Jacinda Ardern's Labour government will have to examine its political soul.
Despite the success of relief efforts by the government and civil society, it’s clear that hunger and food insecurity remain at disturbingly high levels in households.
Emergency welfare relief during the pandemic shows 'transformational' child poverty action is politically and economically possible.
Emergency relief measures were operational for six months and are due to end soon. But the impacts of COVID-19 will be felt long after.
Hope – tied to action – can be a powerful catalyst for success.
New risk models show nearly twice as many properties are at risk from a 100-year flood today than the government's flood maps indicate.
From policy to performance, a panel of five political experts analyses the first televised leaders' debate of the 2020 New Zealand election campaign.
Marcus Rashford has spoken eloquently about what happens when the government does not provide adequate support for food-insecure families. Children we interviewed said the same thing.
Making some of the Newstart increase permanent would undo the worst of the damage.
The story map reveals that like any part of society, street youth are both subject to and willing to conform to rules and conventions, in this case for their own and others' safety.
Public health education campaigns disregard economic factors.
With UNICEF ranking New Zealand 35th out of 41 rich countries for children’s well-being, the gap between rhetoric and reality is wider than ever.
Low-paid workers at both ends of the supply chain – the small farmers who grow most of the crop and the casual staff who serve you at the cafe – weren't well off even before the pandemic hit.
The life story of Mandlenkosi Makhoba represents the losers in the new South Africa, showing how inequality is produced and reproduced generationally.
Visits between foster children and their biological families are being disrupted and reunification hearings delayed.
Unconditional emergency assistance for the world’s poorest could be funded by temporarily freezing debt repayments.
Unemployed Australians were characterised as 'lazy' and 'underserving' of government support in the 1930s. Sound familiar?
The earned income tax credit lifts around 6 million of the working poor out of poverty every year, but with the economy hammered by COVID-19, many might not get the benefit they need.
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Dean of the Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, and Head of the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Chair professor, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Professor of Development Economics, University of Malaya
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Director: Environment and Production Technology Division, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), CGIAR System Organization
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Deputy Director at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Economics, University of Michigan
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Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
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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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Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
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Professor and Chair of the Economics Department, Allegheny College
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Honorary Research Fellow, City Political Economy Research Centre, City, University of London
