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Michael Haddon posted a blog entry
Bringing ownership back in
In her Progress lecture tonightCabinet Office Minister Tessa Jowell argues that Labour was wrong to walk away from the idea of...
In her Progress lecture tonightCabinet Office Minister Tessa Jowell argues that Labour was wrong to walk away from the idea of...
Michael Haddon posted a blog entry
The New Labour case for a bank bonus tax
Don Paskini has challenged the claim made by John Rentoul that "the tax on bankers’ bonuses was the final act of...
Don Paskini has challenged the claim made by John Rentoul that "the tax on bankers’ bonuses was the final act of...
Rebecca Laffar-Smith posted a blog entry
Does Our Underwear Determine Our Success?
*jaw drops* Ok, my head must have been in the sand yesterday because I didn’t hear about this until late this afternoon...
*jaw drops* Ok, my head must have been in the sand yesterday because I didn’t hear about this until late this afternoon...
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White America’s Existential Crisis
People have, apparently, lost their minds. There seems to be a panic that we have lost the fabric of our society and I’m having trouble getting a handle on what has happened that is so drastic that people would think its tyranny or fascism or...
People have, apparently, lost their minds. There seems to be a panic that we have lost the fabric of our society and I’m having trouble getting a handle on what has happened that is so drastic that people would think its tyranny or fascism or...
1 day ago
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Webkinzie posted a tweet
Updated my blog with The Indypendent » Inequality Explosion: Plummeting House Prices ... http://bit.ly/8C6W7I
Vincent Leleux posted a tweet
The Indypendent » Inequality Explosion: Plummeting House Prices ... http://bit.ly/4GIwk7
Josie Fraser posted a tweet
RT @juliandobson: How housing and education are creating inequality http://bit.ly/8M91vm
RT @juliandobson: How housing and education are creating inequality http://bit.ly/8M91vm
RT @juliandobson: How housing and education are creating inequality http://bit.ly/8M91vm
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Michael Haddon posted a blog entry
Could falling home ownership be good for us?
The Independent reports Housing Minister John Healey's Fabian speech on Wednesday night, noting that this is the first decade...
The Independent reports Housing Minister John Healey's Fabian speech on Wednesday night, noting that this is the first decade...
Nothing in Particular posted a tweet
The problem with the world has always been and will always be the inequality of the law's implementation. How do you penalize errant rulers?
Leon Benjamin posted a tweet
Inequality; the distance covered by those who rise is so great, while those who risk falling have too much to lose... http://ff.im/cJmy4
Michael Haddon posted a blog entry
On austerity and affluence
The Fabian Society and Webb Memorial Trust today publish The Solidarity Society, a major 270-page book which reports a two-year...
The Fabian Society and Webb Memorial Trust today publish The Solidarity Society, a major 270-page book which reports a two-year...
Peter D posted a tweet
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.Aristotle #quote
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6 days ago
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gordonr posted tweets
Social intranet / e2.0 types: Do you think participation inequality exists on the intranet? Have you witnessed it? Proof? #intranet
Michael Haddon posted a blog entry
"Class war" on bank bonuses? The myth debunked
Over-excited media commentators and bloggers in the run-up to today's pre-budget report have claimed that Bashing the bankers...
Over-excited media commentators and bloggers in the run-up to today's pre-budget report have claimed that Bashing the bankers...
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This is Brittle Britain, anxious and stressed | Geoff Mulgan - Times Online
"The survey challenges many of the conventional wisdoms. The troubling message for the Government is that after 12 years in power, inequalities are widening, a huge number of teenagers remain out of education or training and 2.5 million people are...
"The survey challenges many of the conventional wisdoms. The troubling message for the Government is that after 12 years in power, inequalities are widening, a huge number of teenagers remain out of education or training and 2.5 million people are...
nayaa posted a blog entry
" Beyond Afghanistan "
On Jan. 18, 2010 our nation will observe Martin Luther King, Jr. Day , commemorating the extraordinary life of an intellectual...
On Jan. 18, 2010 our nation will observe Martin Luther King, Jr. Day , commemorating the extraordinary life of an intellectual...
mrawesome posted a blog entry
When Allies Fail, Part II
By Guest Contributor Tami, originally published at What Tami Said[In the following post about allies, I am confining my...
By Guest Contributor Tami, originally published at What Tami Said[In the following post about allies, I am confining my...
8 days ago
Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture
| Topics: activism, community, inequality, privilege
Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture
| Topics: activism, community, inequality, privilege
Rami posted a blog entry
Everything is different at Solidere
Parking meters around Beirut all allow free parking after 5 or 6 PM except in Solidere! As you can see in the below photo, free...
Parking meters around Beirut all allow free parking after 5 or 6 PM except in Solidere! As you can see in the below photo, free...
Xanthippas posted a blog entry
Just Doing Their Jobs
The IRS audited a single woman with two kids on the belief that since she wasn’t reporting enough income to support...
The IRS audited a single woman with two kids on the belief that since she wasn’t reporting enough income to support...
mrawesome posted a blog entry
When Allies Fail, Part I
By Guest Contributor Tami, originally published at What Tami Said[In the following post about allies, I am confining my...
By Guest Contributor Tami, originally published at What Tami Said[In the following post about allies, I am confining my...
9 days ago
Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture
| Topics: activism, community, inequality, privilege
Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture
| Topics: activism, community, inequality, privilegeMichael Haddon posted a blog entry
Dear David Cameron ...
This Thursday 10th December, the Fabian Society publishes The Solidarity Society, a new book by Tim Horton and James Gregory...
This Thursday 10th December, the Fabian Society publishes The Solidarity Society, a new book by Tim Horton and James Gregory...
Michael Haddon posted a blog entry
Tories plan to back Labour bank bonus tax
So reports the BBC's Robert Peston:What the Chancellor has in mind - and what may be announced in Wednesday's pre-budget...
So reports the BBC's Robert Peston:What the Chancellor has in mind - and what may be announced in Wednesday's pre-budget...
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Edmund Phelps on Capitalism
Here’s a wonderful essay from a year ago by 2006 Nobel Laureate economist Edmund Phelps. (HT Michael Strong) A sampling:The other difficulty with that fashionable hypothesis [that market-generated economic growth is overrated] is that most of the...
Here’s a wonderful essay from a year ago by 2006 Nobel Laureate economist Edmund Phelps. (HT Michael Strong) A sampling:The other difficulty with that fashionable hypothesis [that market-generated economic growth is overrated] is that most of the...
10 days ago
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dahveedgr posted a tweet
Berkeley’s Jen Schradie poses more questions than answers: Whose voice is online? Digital Inequality, a temporary or persistent gap? #FOTF
RussRoberts posted a blog entry
Edmund Phelps on Capitalism
Here’s a wonderful essay from a year ago by 2006 Nobel Laureate economist Edmund Phelps. (HT Michael Strong) A...
Here’s a wonderful essay from a year ago by 2006 Nobel Laureate economist Edmund Phelps. (HT Michael Strong) A...
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Elizabeth Warren: America Without a Middle Class
Today, one in five Americans is unemployed, underemployed or just plain out of work.
Today, one in five Americans is unemployed, underemployed or just plain out of work.
Mentarch posted a blog entry
How About A "War On Poverty" Instead?
An old suggestion, yes, but nonetheless a quite à propos one:How About a War on Poverty Instead?Finishing the Job at HomeBy...
An old suggestion, yes, but nonetheless a quite à propos one:How About a War on Poverty Instead?Finishing the Job at HomeBy...
Shirland posted a tweet
"Where there are differences there will be inequality. Where there is absolute equality, therefore, there can be no best of anything"
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15 days ago
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| Topics: statistics, data, society, economics | Add delicious to your profileRussRoberts posted a blog entry
On Rich, Poor, and What Trends Mean
Here’s Steve Horwitz’s important follow-up to his earlier post on the poor getting richer: there’s some...
Here’s Steve Horwitz’s important follow-up to his earlier post on the poor getting richer: there’s some...
PaulC posted a blog entry
"They love us at night. They hate us the rest of the time”
In the run up to World AIDS day on December 1st my colleague, Jean-Luc Martinage, has been busy putting together a report...
In the run up to World AIDS day on December 1st my colleague, Jean-Luc Martinage, has been busy putting together a report...
RussRoberts posted a blog entry
Apologies to Paul Krugman
I here plead guilty to interpreting Paul Krugman unfairly. I’ve long read a passage in this 2002 New York Times...
I here plead guilty to interpreting Paul Krugman unfairly. I’ve long read a passage in this 2002 New York Times...
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24 days ago
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dpinkenya posted a blog entry
closing the sukuma kenya chapter
It's taken me a few months to think this through and now its thought... It's time for Sukuma Kenya to lay to rest. I believe...
It's taken me a few months to think this through and now its thought... It's time for Sukuma Kenya to lay to rest. I believe...
Fitaloon posted a blog entry
Harriet Harman: The case of the gender pay discrimination denier
A new “crime” has been invented by Miss Harperson.This is the crime of being a gender pay discrimination...
A new “crime” has been invented by Miss Harperson.This is the crime of being a gender pay discrimination...
40 days ago
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| Topics: Labour Sleaze, Politics, gender pay discrimination..., Harriet...Jana posted a blog entry
Business life in Rocinha favela
Samantha Pearson-The Financial Times, 11/04/09A group of teenagers loitering outside Bob’s, Brazil’s equivalent of...
Samantha Pearson-The Financial Times, 11/04/09A group of teenagers loitering outside Bob’s, Brazil’s equivalent of...
brandonwu posted a blog entry
U.N. Report Shows Global Wages Falling
On Nov. 3 the U.N. agency on labor, the International Labor Organization (ILO), released a 15-page report finding that real...
On Nov. 3 the U.N. agency on labor, the International Labor Organization (ILO), released a 15-page report finding that real...
brandonwu posted a blog entry
U.N. Report Shows Global Wages Falling
On Nov. 3 the U.N. agency on labor, the International Labor Organization (ILO), released a 15-page report finding that real...
On Nov. 3 the U.N. agency on labor, the International Labor Organization (ILO), released a 15-page report finding that real...
Michael Martine posted a tweet
I'm sick and tired of seeing civil rights issues put to a vote. Civil rights inequality is already the product of majority rules.
43 days ago
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Patrick Cremin posted a blog entry
DateTime c# examples
The System.DateTime namespace packages some pretty powerful functionality. It allows you to work with Date & Time and also...
The System.DateTime namespace packages some pretty powerful functionality. It allows you to work with Date & Time and also...
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