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President Trump says that the white working class is being pushed out of the job market. But that doesn’t seem to be true for the best-paying blue-collar jobs.
Knife crime incidents are individual tragedies, but rising homicide rates reveal a changing society which is ill at ease.
Budgets will increasingly acknowledge that welfare is about us, rather than us versus them.
Supertaxes on very high earners needn’t be a problem.
Thanks to a long history of exclusionary government programs, the typical black family now has only 10 cents for every dollar held by the typical white family.
Research suggests the government’s dismantling of democracy could cost the country dear.
Guaranteeing unemployed South Africans a job at the minimum wage would have a range of positive outcomes for the economy.
In the US, black children wait longer to be adopted and cost less to adopt than white children.
Approximately 50% of the UK’s poorest people live over 15 miles from a national park and most people require transport to get to them.
Inequality is one of the major issues of the modern age – but understanding where it happens is harder than you think.
Mexico’s new president has reduced his own salary and demanded that all federal workers
– including lawmakers and judges – take a massive pay cut, too. That may be illegal.
Minorities are driving the bicycling boom, but bike infrastructure investments often neglect their needs. A new study explores what riders in low-income and minority neighborhoods want.
The World Bank needs to change as part of rethinking the current world order, and giving rising powers and developing countries a meaningful voice.
The high costs of finding work make it difficult for young South Africans to get jobs.
There’s a notable disparity between the rate of employment for people with and without disabilities, especially in certain pockets of the US.
A great deal of analysis on South Africa and the ruling ANC seems to be based on wishful thinking, not concrete reality.
As inequality in the US increases, the federal government is failing to address it. Can states pick up the slack?
A Lancet series shows that C-sections are performed for non-medical reasons in private health while poor women who need the surgery don’t have access.
Though best remembered for her role in the doomed German Revolution, Rosa Luxemburg’s theories on how capitalism exploits people and nature need hearing today.
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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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Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
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Part-Time Professor of Economics, The New School
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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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Visiting Senior Fellow in History, UNSW Sydney
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Deputy Director at the 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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Distinguished Reserach Professor, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Epidemiology, University of York
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Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Senior lecturer, The University of Edinburgh
