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UK Inequality

  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    Education
    UK spending on pre-school education among lowest of advanced economies

    OECD report points to challenges in improving state-backed provision for young children

    A young child writing at a playgroup for pre-school children in Somerset
  • Monday, 26 August, 2024
    Alun Francis
    Who are Britain’s left behind and what is to blame?

    Solutions for dealing with the lack of mobility for disadvantaged white Britons are either in short supply or ineffective

    A chair is thrown at police officers as trouble flares during an anti-immigration protest outside the Holiday Inn Express in Rotherham
  • Monday, 22 July, 2024
    Paul Johnson
    Growth and cutting inequality must go hand in hand for Labour

    Get the macroeconomic policy wrong and you risk entrenching divides that need dealing with now

    Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves
  • Friday, 19 July, 2024
    Undercover EconomistTim Harford
    UK inequality is getting worse, right? But what if it isn’t?

    The problem is not that economic growth has been too narrow, but that it has barely happened at all

  • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
    Labour party UK
    Starmer set to face first rebellion over two-child benefit cap

    Policy affected record 1.6mn children in the year to April 2024, according to new data

    Children in a play area
  • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
    Chris Giles
    Labour should always choose growth over redistribution

    People are happier when they get a fair share of an expanding pie

    A sign painted on the side of a house directs people to a local food bank in Leeds
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    UK’s two-child benefits cap mainly hits working parents, report shows

    Campaigners say limit ‘drives families into poverty’ and calls on future government to reverse the policy

    A family enjoying a walk in the autumn
  • Wednesday, 12 June, 2024
    News in-depthUK politics
    In charts: the legacy of 14 years of Conservative rule

    Next UK government must grapple with series of challenges in a nation still reeling from austerity, Covid and Brexit

    David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak against a blue background
  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
    Special ReportWellbeing
    Workers feel the burden of financial insecurity

    Initiatives beyond pay can help tackle debilitating effects of money worries

    An employee pushes shopping trolleys back to the store at the Tesco Basildon Pitsea Extra supermarket, operated by Tesco Plc
  • Sunday, 5 May, 2024
    UK economy
    Obesity and low productivity in the UK go hand in hand, warns think-tank

    IPPR researchers describe government’s laissez-faire approach to public health as a ‘failed experiment’

    An overweight person
  • Monday, 29 April, 2024
    UK economy
    Levelling up policy like a half-built cathedral, admits Michael Gove

    Minister asks critics to withhold judgment till 2030 as analysis shows UK struggled to make gains in target areas

    Michael Gove
  • Friday, 12 April, 2024
    FT WealthRhymer Rigby
    Is it a good thing for the very affluent to live in rich enclaves?

    The wealth surrounding you may make you less happy if it means you perceive your status as lower

    A woman in sunglasses walks past a row of colourfully painted houses in London’s Notting Hill
  • Thursday, 21 March, 2024
    UK society
    Fastest rise in UK child poverty for 30 years, data shows

    25% of children living in absolute poverty, sparking outcry from welfare campaigners

    The arms of children in a red school uniform, reaching through the bars of a playground
  • Thursday, 21 March, 2024
    Simon Woolley
    Racism at work is not just a boardroom-level challenge

    Half the UK’s young people from ethnic minority backgrounds have experienced workplace discrimination

    People in an office chat in a group
  • Thursday, 21 March, 2024
    UK government faces multibillion pound bill over pension inequality

    Ombudsman finds changes to state pension age was mishandled, affecting millions of women

    Protesters outside the Houses of Parliament holding up banners objecting to state pension age change for women in October 2018
  • Sunday, 17 March, 2024
    The Big Read
    How the UK is falling behind on tackling child poverty

    Almost a third of children in the country are living in relative poverty, which has increased more than any advanced economy

  • Friday, 15 March, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Blackpool’s £2bn bid to revive the spirit of the British seaside

    The glitz that once attracted the likes of Frank Sinatra has faded but now the town has a shot at restoring its fortunes

    People at an amusement park entrance talking to a person in a Gromit costume
  • Friday, 1 March, 2024
    UK regional policy
    England’s regional divides widening despite ‘levelling up’, study finds

    London and south-east to pull further away from rest of the country in coming years, IPPR says

    A shopping centre in Wakefield
  • Thursday, 29 February, 2024
    FT MagazineSimon Kuper
    Homelessness is a problem we could solve

    Despite growing numbers being affected, many of the solutions are known

  • Wednesday, 28 February, 2024
    Joy Lo Dico
    What Notting Hill reveals about the architecture of inequality

    A new study shows just how rich the west London enclave has become — but is it gentrification if it was built for the wealthy?

    Charles Booth’s Map Descriptive of London Poverty, 1898-9. - Outer Western District
  • Sunday, 18 February, 2024
    Angela Rayner
    Labour promises to work with business

    The UK’s low-productivity, low-security and low-wage doom loop isn’t inevitable

    A P&O ferry docked in Dover on the south English coast
  • Monday, 22 January, 2024
    UK economy
    All parts of UK hit by economic stagnation since 2010, says think-tank

    Research shows rebalancing initiatives by successive Tory governments have made little difference

    Three boys in hoods sitting on a fence in Burnley
  • Monday, 15 January, 2024
    Sandrine Dixson-Decleve
    Growing income inequality is driving public mistrust

    It is time to ask tough questions about wealth and income concentration

    Snow covers rooftops on the first day of the World Economic Forum annual meeting held in Davos
  • Friday, 29 December, 2023
    News in-depthPhilanthropy
    Philanthropy funds community services as UK state support withers

    High-earning donors increasingly keen to channel their wealth directly into grass roots projects

  • Friday, 22 December, 2023
    Graham Tomlin
    Reach across the divide to those in need

    One in five people in the UK lives in poverty, says The Joseph Rowntree Foundation

    Graham Tomlin, British theologian, author and former Church of England bishop.
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