inequality
But the pandemic may give us the best opportunity to tackle these deep social fractures.
Existing structural inequalities means that some groups are more likely to bear the brunt of the virus, writes Zubaida Haque.
A study found a third of coronavirus patients were Black or Asian, despite those groups making up only 13% of the UK population. The reasons are complex and troubling.
The gentleman sparked a huge backlash after claiming his £80,000 salary didn't make him a high earner.
As a rising number of Britons find themselves in 'in-work poverty', Steve and Billy tell their story of homelessness, insecure work and council failings in BBC Two's Broke.
Universal Credit, the largest welfare reform in a generation was supposed to make receiving benefits and getting back into work easier but for many this has had the opposite effect. Delays in payments, sanctions and underpayments have seen a rise in people being forced to use food banks, falling into rent arrears and even homelessness. Drawing on the experiences of those in The Wirral, where there’s been a 32% increase in food bank use since the roll out of UC in November 2017, volunteer groups like Fans Supporting Foodbanks and local politicians in Liverpool, are bracing themselves for the full rollout of universal credit.
Oxfam has released a report ahead of the 2019 World Economic Forum meeting in Davos highlighting how low taxes on the world’s wealthiest has led to inequality that is ‘out of control’. Taxes on the super rich are at the lowest level they’ve been in decades, while hundreds of millions of children across the globe go without education and millions struggle to access healthcare, according to Oxfam. They suggest that a 0.5 percent increase in taxes on the wealthiest one percent could provide the funds to support those education and health services.
There’s still a problem with men and women not being encouraged to enter roles or industries that stereotypically are not associated with their gender
Yes, we have undoubtedly benefited from the profound changes of the past 40 years, but they weren’t our idea, nor did we vote for them
