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Problems with who gets access to university date back to the 19th century.
It’s a project that creates benefits for Melbourne’s western suburbs and the state as a whole. But the inner-city elite don’t like it and recent experience suggests their opinion holds sway.
An analysis of what’s known as the Gini coefficient offers some clues on what makes one society more unequal in terms of income than another.
The state government of Rio de Janeiro has declared a state of “public calamity”, as it struggles to cope with severe economic and social crises.
New figures reveal inequality in Britain and the effects of the redistributive tax and benefits system.
Much like the latest Zack Snyder film, the inter-generational war being played out in the press seems largely unnecessary.
Multiple times over the centuries, climate issues caused Pueblo farming to collapse, taking the establishment down with it. New research suggests there are parallels with American inequalities today.
Where you live affects your health and life expectancy. This makes it possible to map health outcomes against train stations, so that you can readily see the inequalities across cities like Melbourne.
The student protests that rocked South Africa’s universities in 2015 are part of a class struggle as poor and marginalised people fight for their place in an unequal system.
Democracy’s problem is not the crisis but the triumph of capitalism. Democracy has become market-conforming, resulting in whole sections of society lacking meaningful representation.
Students in the same grade in the same school receive a very different education based on the socioeconomic status of their parents.
These maps can tell us much more than the location of England’s most and least deprived areas.
The higher education sector must collaborate to reach out to applicants from poor and diverse backgrounds.
Although Sierra Leone is not yet officially ebola-free, there are significant improvements. Economic recovery discussions have also started. Care needs to be taken to ensure broader societal benefit.
Rather than hold on to the idea of equality of opportunity, it might be more accurate to say that we don’t really support it because it comes at too high a price.
New research shows how cities are tackling the issues usually dealt with by states and the federal government
Division between the have and have nots is likely to widen – and food is one area where many will go without.
For decades, public housing stood as the most architecturally visible and politically stigmatized reminder of urban poverty in many American cities. Originally built to accommodate an upwardly mobile segment…
All children with early language problems are at increased risk of struggling at school, and having reduced employment opportunities and life chances, but the risk of early language problems is disproportionately…
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