Key Developments

Key Developments (November 2019)

Once upon a time (austerity in the East Midlands)
Read our Everyday Inequality blog for WEALL
We signed an open letter to the World Bank demanding a fairer school system
Thomas Cook: how CEOs defend their high pay among the financial ruin of thousands
What millionaires can do to challenge inequality: blog and Challenge Paper: Inequality and Exclusion
Unequal share of carbon emissions with 20 companies responsible for 35% of carbon emissions
"I thought I grew up poor – but not as poor as you": young working class women share their stories of discrimination at work

How can we improve teaching young people about real socioeconomic inequality in schools?
Institute for Policy Studies (US): typical employees need to work 1,000 years to earn what an executive earns in just one year
Carnegie UK Trust, Living Wage Scotland and Living Wage Foundation publish the Living Wage Toolkit
Our policy briefing on public–private partnerships, gender and the role of privatisation in undermining progress towards achieving women's rights
Structurally Unsound: UCL and the Resolution Foundation report on 5 approaches to equity, featuring excerpts from our #everydayinequality platform
Falling through the cracks: exposing inequalities in the EU and beyond by SDG Watch Europe, Make Europe Sustainable for All and Faces of Inequality
Oxfam discussion paper Fighting Inequality to Beat Poverty: The role of UK international development

Why managing executive pay is a shareholder issue
Protests around the world: people standing up to inequality
Rising inequality in Brazil
A tax on whatsapp: the straw that broke the camel's back in Lebanon
Inequality sparks protest in Chile
Inequality sparks protests in Hong Kong
Private Finance Initiative nightmare: local authorities are trapped
Bank of England Chief Economist supports extending compulsory pay gap reporting to ethnicity as well as gender

Green Alliance Blog on why justice and environmental organisations should be working more closely together
Njoki Njehu on inequality and African Feminism: Podcast + transcript
UCL’s Grand Challenge of Justice & Equality event: Structurally Unsound
Young people face the biggest challenge with growing inequality
Resentment is not conducive to generosity: how inequality is dangerous for democracy