Tag Archives: Inequality

Today’s child poverty figures show we are leaving our children utterly exposed

By Guest | Published: June 13, 2013

Work pays, we are always told, but for many it is clearly not paying enough. The latest official child poverty figures released today show that in-work poverty is on the rise, with two-thirds of poor children now living in families with at least one working parent.

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A further unearned and disproportionate increase in the size of executive pay packets

By Guest | Published: June 12, 2013

The annual Manifest/MM&K executive director Total Remuneration survey was released this week, finding that take home pay for the average FTSE 100 CEO was up to £4.3 million in 2012, an increase of 10 per cent on the previous year.

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Big pay rises at top British companies

By James Bloodworth | Published: June 10, 2013

The 100 best-paid chief executives of British companies were paid £4.3 million each on average last year, an increase of 13 per cent on 2011, research has found.

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Cutting top rate taxes makes the rich richer. And that’s it

By Guest | Published: June 6, 2013

So, cutting taxes just makes the rich richer. And that’s it. And since we know inequality harms society these tax rates, it follows, are harmful to us all – the rich included.

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The greed of the executives and their cosiness to government enables high pay culture

By Guest | Published: June 5, 2013

So it is not the acquiescence of the general population that enables executive pay and levels of inequality to keep increasing. It is the greed of the executives themselves, and their cosiness with a government too weak to take them on.

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True ‘austerity’ would require those at the top to shoulder a much greater burden

By Guest | Published: June 5, 2013

Rather than making society’s most vulnerable members carry the can, true ‘austerity’ would require those at the top to bear the much greater burden, in order to bring down increasingly obscene levels of unequal wealth.

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Inequality stat of the day

By James Bloodworth | Published: June 4, 2013

Inequality stat of the day.

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Bank of England confirms rich made richer by QE

By Guest | Published: May 30, 2013

Will a politician have the courage to make the case for measures to deliberately redistribute from rich to poor if only to correct the redistribution that has taken place in the opposite direction as a result of QE?

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The Great Gatsby holds up a mirror to the illusions of austerity Britain

By Guest | Published: May 18, 2013

In the mirror that The Great Gatsby holds up to 1920s America, we can see a reflection of our own illusions. We need to acknowledge them before we can deal with some of our most deep-rooted social problems.

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A minimum wage worker would need to work 380 hours a week to match top earner

By James Bloodworth | Published: April 18, 2013

A minimum wage worker would need to work for 380 hours a week to match the annual salary of someone at the 99th percentile, according to research by the Resolution Foundation.

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