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We mapped 18,000 children’s playgrounds and revealed inequality across England

Outside of the home, public playgrounds are the most common places for children to play and the fundamental right of every child to play is even recognised in a UN convention. Despite this, there has been very limited research exploring inequality in the provision of playgrounds.

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Young men on South Africa’s urban margins: new book follows their lives over 10 years

South Africa’s young people, aged 15 to 34, who make up more than 50% of the country’s working age population, bear a disproportionate burden of unemployment. They have done so for more than a decade. Of this group, those aged 15-24 face the highest barriers to the job market, according…

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Danish Mayors Revolt Against Plan To Raise Retirement Age To 70, Citing It's Cruel To Let Old People Continue Working

Danish mayors are opposing a new law that will raise the retirement age to 70 by 2040, warning it will harm manual workers and deepen inequality

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Financial literacy is about more than personal responsibility – wealth and inequality should be part of the new curriculum

Financial literacy will become a core element of the New Zealand social sciences curriculum for Year 1-10 students from 2027. But what is being proposed presents a limited picture of the factors influencing people’s financial wellbeing.

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Should Stay-at-Home Parents Get Paid by the Government?

Every day, millions of stay-at-home parents wake up early, manage breakfast, juggle laundry, play nurse, tutor, cook, chauffeur, and serve as round-the-clock emotional support—all without a paycheck. Their work is real, relentless, and crucial to the well-being of their families and society. And yet, stay-at-home parents remain one of the…

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The Guardian view on billionaire Britain: tax wealth fairly or face democratic unravelling

Editorial: Without bold reform which makes the rich pull their weight, rising inequality risks eroding public trust and fracturing social stability

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53 Problematic Celebs People Forgot Were Horrible Human Beings

John Lennon. Musical talent aside, the way he treated his ex wife and Julian is appalling. And people let him off far too lightly for the break up of the band, blaming it all on Yoko Ono. He was a grown a*s man who could think for himself. Not that…

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Children’s Laureate calls for action over ‘indefensible’ reading inequality

All children and families should have access to high-quality books that are ‘representative of the contemporary UK’, a report says.

Evening Standard

‘We shouldn’t blow this one’: why Democrats have a chance to retake the working class

Joan C Williams explains how to win over voters – and shares a quiz that tells you whether you’re elite or not

The Guardian - US

The GOP Budget Is Big, Bloated, B.S.

Plus: A listener asks if the economic inequality data is bad.

Reason

It’s not a rich list – it’s gone far beyond that. We need to talk about ‘extreme wealth’

We recognise extreme poverty as ruinous, but this turbo-charged affluence is deeply damaging too. Treat it as such, says Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah of the New Economics Foundation

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‘Inequality and infinite growth’: Canary Islands anti-tourism protests reignite amid record arrivals

Last year, locals held multiple protests to highlight overtourism’s strain on local infrastructure and housing availability.

Euronews

What causes inequality in African countries? New book traces a vicious cycle

Inequality is a problem that exists in various forms in sub-Saharan Africa.

The Conversation

True value of ‘bank of mum and dad’ for first-time buyers revealed in new analysis

Years of saving and thousands of pounds are saved with family support, researchers find

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Bank of mum and dad ‘helps first-time buyers purchase homes two years earlier’

The growing reliance on family support risks deepening housing market inequality, according to UK Finance, which carried out the analysis.

Evening Standard

Sir Lenny Henry and Richard Curtis ‘honoured’ to accept philanthropy award

Comic Relief is recognised for how it has addressed poverty and inequality in the UK and internationally.

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Culture wars, political polarization and deepening inequality: the roots of Trumpism

More than 100 days into his return to the White House, the conclusion is stark: Donald Trump is no longer the same president he was during his first term. His familiar nationalist and populist rhetoric is now openly paired with an authoritarian turn – one without precedent in US history. He…

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Repealing the estate tax could create headaches for the rich – as well as worsen inequality

Nothing is more certain than death and taxes, Benjamin Franklin famously declared. And, since 1916, the federal government has imposed an estate tax on the transfer of property owned at death.

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Inequality killing on a ‘grand scale’ globally, experts warn

It comes as a new report from the WHO revealed targets designed to help tackle global health inequalities within a generation will not be met.

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Labour is still gendered – and women are still getting a raw deal in the workplace

“When diversity, equity and inclusion become ‘threats’ to the order of society,” Judith Butler wrote recently, “progressive politics in general is held responsible for every social ill.” Authoritarians are empowered to oppress vulnerable people in the name of “the nation, the natural order, the family, society or civilization itself”.

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Investing in agriculture reduces poverty and inequality: economic model finds the best funding mix for 10 African countries

Africa faces challenges in reducing extreme poverty and inequality. In 2024, 8.5% of the global population was living in extreme poverty (that is, on less than US$2.15 a day). Nearly 67% of these people were living in sub-Saharan Africa.

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A basic income support grant can address extreme poverty and inequality in South Africa - economic model shows how

South Africa remains one of the most unequal countries in the world. The country’s per-capita expenditure Gini coefficient, a measure of how spending from income is distributed, stands at 0.65. This puts it among countries with the most unequal distribution of spending globally.

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Is Canada heading down a path that has caused the collapse of mighty civilizations in the past?

Canada is, by nearly any measure, a large, advanced, prosperous nation. A founding member of the G7, Canada is one of the world’s most “advanced economies,” ranking fourth in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Better Life Index, which measures things like national health outcomes, security, safety and life…

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What 2,000 years of Chinese history reveals about today’s AI-driven technology panic – and the future of inequality

In the sweltering summer of AD18, a desperate chant echoed across China’s sun-scorched plains: “Heaven has gone blind!” Thousands of starving farmers, their faces smeared with ox blood, marched toward the opulent vaults held by the Han dynasty’s elite rulers.

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New survey shows the extent of class privilege in UK journalism

UK journalism has a class problem. This statement will not surprise most people familiar with UK newsrooms. What is astonishing, though, is the scarcity of empirical data that could help us better understand the extent to which class inequality affects journalists and their work.

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