The UN’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights will look at the effects of austerity on the UK’s most vulnerable.
Barangaroo is a development on Sydney Harbour with strong green credentials, but it’s overwhelmingly the well-off who enjoy the benefits.
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Barangaroo is an example of a development with admirable green credentials, but it is also an exclusive precinct that has played a role in displacing the disadvantaged from this part of Sydney.
There’s so much that can be done to tackle the problem, The UK’s levels of homelessness are dwarfed by the US’ But so much more could be done to tackle the problem.
Workers’ falling share of national income is helping to fuel the trade union campaign to ‘change the rules’.
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While government payments and programs go some way to reducing inequality, the transformation of the labour market and its institutions has cut workers’ share of the pie to historic lows.
Ensuring both men and women have access to baby changing facilities is one of many issues that gender equality mapping can help tackle.
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The map will help uncover real experiences of gender inequality in public places, from sports facilities to public transport, community services and infrastructure, to simply walking down the street.
Real tax reform is about more than cutting taxes to woo voters. It’s about making the system fairer.
A significant number of transgender and non-binary people report discrimination when seeking medical and social services.
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Outed. Denied care. Openly harassed. These are just a few of the experiences reported by American transgender and non-binary individuals when seeking medical care or social services.
About 56% of Kenya’s urban population currently lives in a slum.
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The rental housing market in Nairobi’s informal settlements offers its tenant households a perverse market outcome of higher prices for lower quality products
South African workers protesting against a proposed minimum wage earlier this year.
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One of the largest concentrations of poverty in the US exists in communities at the US-Mexico border called ‘colonias.’ These informal settlements lack access to basic infrastructure.
Cyril Ramaphosa’s economic stimulus package shows that he and his political allies are in charge of economic policy.
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Ramaphosa’s stimulus package is more interesting for what it says about the politics of economic decision making than for its likely impact on the economy.
It’s unsurprising that a large number of people pay no net tax.
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Peter Whiteford, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Its extremely common, everywhere, for large numbers of people to pay no net tax. It tells us nothing about the size of the welfare state or about whether it bribes people to keep tax high.
Staying in school improves your chances of a healthy future.
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