Book Review: Injustice: why social inequality persists by Daniel Dorling
Daniel Dorling is one of the researchers who has shown that the idea that we are ‘sleepwalking into segregation’ because ethnic minorities are becoming more concentrated in British cities like Bradford is wrong – in fact, the reverse is happening. Where we are becoming more segregated is between rich and poor. Affluent people are voting […]
Book review: Towards a more equal society? – Poverty, inequality and policy since 1997 by John Hills, Tom Sefton and Kitty Stewart
One of the many things that will stay in the mind long after this government has disappeared will be how much it liked setting targets. It wanted these to be taken seriously – after all, it was Peter Mandelson who said that Labour should be judged after ten years in office, and one of the […]
Book Review: The Spirit Level: Why more equal societies almost always do better by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
A pub quiz that asks you to name the world’s richest country seems too easy. The obvious answer – ‘the USA’ – is also the right one. It has an average income of more than $40,000 per head. But does this mean that the American dream has come true? What about if the question asked […]
John Perry lives in Masaya, Nicaragua where he works on