Key Developments (April 2021)

LATEST BLOGS / COMMENT / RESOURCES

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• The Equality Trust signs an open letter: the Welsh Government's commencement of the Socio-Economic Duty

• Following the Government’s race report, Wanda makes a brief argument alongside an opposing position: Is the UK institutionally racist?

• Wanda signs a letter to the Prime Minister: Drop Discriminatory Elements of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill

• Wanda signs a letter to the Government:  Roll Back on Expansive Police Power

• Wanda responds to research about young women, inequality and the job market

• #EthnicityPayGap campaign has its own website

• Chuck Collins’ new book: The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions plus the UK launch webinar

KEY DEVELOPMENTS AND REPORTS

• Parliamentary committee presents evidence of the unequal impact of Covid-19 on women

• Low-income families know about health foods but can't afford them 

• Britons care about geographical inequality and but are weak on other types

• Low-income students lose out on job opportunities due to Covid-19’s impact on universities
   

INEQUALITY IN THE NEWS

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• Report of the Greater Manchester Independent Inequality Commission

• The PM has no roadmap out of inequality

• Labour MP says Rishi Sunak’s Budget ignored equality

• Is transparency the key to the gender pay gap? 

• Half of UK women fear equality will go back to the 70s
   

COVID-19 AND INEQUALITY NEWS
 

• Inequalities in education, skills, and incomes in the UK: The implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, 

• Covid-19 has widened inequality in Wales, data indicates

• Income inequality is a major predictor of covid-19 death rates

• Covid-19 has increased inequality in Warrington to ‘incredible heights’, says health chief