As the debate rolls on about UBI, we look at the proven benefits of a welfare scheme that provides a level of economic security to everyone and how the evidence so far does not necessarily support critics’ concerns.
Checking soaring executive pay is necessary for reducing income inequalities, but the government continually fails to address the issue.
According to the Equality Trust, London has the largest pay gap in the country
Countries with widening income gaps are growing more slowly.
Nick Clegg’s tax threshold plans go half way to addressing the problem of working poverty, but it goes no way towards addressing the cause.
Unless the trend towards greater inequality is halted, we may end up back at the levels of disparity “evident in Victorian England”, the High Pay Commission says.
Duncan Exley looks at the social issues behind the Rich List 2011 and the income inequality causing them.
Duncan Exley, campaign director of One Society, reports on the importance of the Royal Commission on social mobility and the issue it cannot afford to ignore.
New research by ippr north shows that the gap between the rich and poor is narrower in the North than in the UK on average, but the gap is growing across the board.
Darren Johnson, a Green Party member of the London Assembly, asks: Should we give equal priority to income inequality and tackle the pay of people at the top, in the belief that reducing the income gap will lead to economic, social and environmental justice? And can we find we right policies to achieve this?
