The government says it is concerned about sugar reduction. These charts comes from page 10 of their report on the issue: There is the class
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The importance of the labour movement in tackling inequality
The following comes from the web site of the Class Think Tank, of whose advisory board I am a member: The importance of the labour
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Inequality is rising. That’s the fact. Now we need to change that.
There have in recent times been shrill voices across the right wing of the UK saying that the claims that I, and others, have made
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The FT celebrates the unchanging wealth gap
The FT sent this headline out in an email today: Note the implicit assumption: as long as nothing changes it’s all right and let’s carry
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Where is the missing £950 billion of wealth in the UK?
I noted something curious in yesterday’s new wealth statistics from the ONS. Chapter 2 of their report says that in 2008/10 there was a UK
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Why the Gini coefficient underestimates wealth
I wrote about inequality here yesterday and the usual range of nearly anonymous right wing trolls and astroturfers were out in force to say that
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Capital’s attack on wages goes on
One of the underlying important themes that the Tax Justice Network and I have emphasised over the last decade has been the continual shift of
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The US corporate tax problem in one graph
The Testosterone Pit (not a name I would have chosen) has an article out this week that shows in just one graph what the US
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The price of falling EU corporation tax rates: €107 billion
I noted a fascinating blog on Irish corporation tax this week. Written by Michael Taft of Unite, Ireland, he said: According to Finfacts: ‘Michael Noonan,
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