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Overall, the growth in giving to public higher ed institutions isn’t compensating for a reduction in funding by the states.
Unions should move their focus away from traditional collective bargaining and instead embrace new ways to attract new members, such as by offering discounted benefits and engaging in more advocacy.
The official figures show things are fine, but Australia’s most comprehensive tracking survey finds the typical household is worse off than ten years ago.
A clandestine system of transfer payment, with roots in apartheid-era boycotts, has developed into routine behaviour on which many family budgets now depend.
Combining big data sources about bike-share trips with anonymized data from traditional survey research can best capture who is using bike-share programs.
A new project looks at the race of on-duty police officers and civilians involved in 917 fatal shootings in 2015.
US school segregation is higher than it has been in decades, even if there are no longer overt laws requiring racially segregated schools.
Inherited wealth matters less among Australia’s super rich, fresh ideas matter more.
During the apartheid period in South Africa – 1948 to 1994 – a lively intellectual culture of opposition emerged on some of the country’s university campuses and within the broader anti-apartheid movement…
Most of the gains from the record economy went to those at the top, while everyone else saw much smaller gains – if any – in income and wealth.
In the face of climate change, the poorest are suffering from the excess emissions of CO₂ linked to the lifestyle of the richest. It is time to act, in the name of climate and social justice.
It’s easy to report on access and inputs, but much more difficult to achieve educational quality and meaningful outcomes.
A former member of the Social Mobility Commission on Jeremy Corbyn’s plan to drop social mobility as a policy goal in favour of social justice.
A study of over 700,000 state and local drug arrests shows that two out of three cases involve a small amount of illegal drugs.
Inequality persists in post-apartheid South Africa, reflecting the distribution of power. Reversing this will require changing the social processes and relations that underpin it.
If the country is to survive its current crisis, government will need to undertake two difficult tasks simultaneously.
Selective schools aim to give all gifted students, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, opportunities they may not have had otherwise. But that’s not what’s actually happening.
After recent elections, South Africa are grappling with what the reasons are for the declining trend in youth participation in the 2019 elections.
Although certain racial minorities are more likely to be diagnosed with organ failure, they are less likely to be transplanted. What’s behind the gap?
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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Visiting Senior Fellow in History, UNSW Sydney
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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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Part-Time Professor of Economics, The New School
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Deputy Director at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Distinguished Reserach Professor, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Emeritus Professor, Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Dean of Business School, University of Southern Queensland
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Senior lecturer, The University of Edinburgh
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Professor of Epidemiology, University of York
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
