Wealth, power and fairness: in conversation with @mikebrewerecon.bsky.social - the @resolutionfoundation.org Deputy Chief Executive on why the absolute size of wealth gaps matters as much as the relative ones, what extreme wealth does to power, and much more...

Wealth, power and fairness: in conversation with Mike Brewer

The Resolution Foundation's Deputy Chief Executive on why the absolute size of wealth gaps matters as much as the relative ones, what extreme wealth does to power, and much more...

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Me, in the Guardian today, on Reform voters and sympathisers in England's post-industrial towns www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Secrecy is essential to the crimes of the elite. It's what makes offshore tax havens so effective for dodging taxes, hiding dirty money & funding crime. Public registers would allow tax authorities, police & journalists follow the money & expose corruption. tinyurl.com/mry3htz6

EXPOSE TAX HAVEN SECRETS

No more secrets, no more safe havens for dirty money.

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Get 50% off the paperback or eBook of these titles with code DEBTS.🌟🛒 📻 Yesterday on BBC Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed, Ryan Davey and Sarah Kerr explored the real-world impacts of debt and wealth inequality. 🎧 Listen: https://ow.ly/nHmY50YstC6 📚 Browse: https://ow.ly/PxUN50YstC5

It was a pleasure and a privilege to speak to Laurie Taylor on BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed about my work on wealth @uomphilosophy.bsky.social and @lseinequalities.bsky.social and great to share the experience with Ryan Davey talking about debt www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Thinking Allowed - Debt and Wealth Inequality - BBC Sounds

Living with debt - and has inequality become ingrained? Laurie Taylor hears new research.

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👉 Stories about economic change are never neutral. They make politics. In my new article in Sociological Theory @sociologicaltheory.bsky.social, I show how narratives about economic disruption become a source of legitimacy: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Brilliant @cmmonwealth.bsky.social thread on the public wealth give-away that was 'right to buy'. Love the idea of right to buy back. 🔥 #publicwealth

Common Wealth@cmmonwealth.bsky.social · last yr.

But the story doesn’t need to end there.   In our latest paper, Adam Peggs lays forth a new proposal: Right to Buy-back. www.common-wealth.org/publications...

"Instead of tinkering around the edges, with a wealth tax the government could win the argument on fairness – and finally start to reverse toxic wealth inequality in this country." Your weekend reading, from our Executive Director @faizashaheen.bsky.social! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Rachel Reeves needs to find cash fast. A wealth tax really is her only viable option | Faiza Shaheen

The alternatives for the UK chancellor are either unworkable or will lose Labour votes, so here’s what she should try, says Faiza Shaheen of Tax Justice UK

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I've been slow to share this because in all honesty I was a little bit hungover on Saturday, but I wrote the New Statesman's weekend essay this week, on why England's ex-mining areas have become especially disenchanted with politics: www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...

Listen to @ignaciapinto.bsky.social, our Senior Research and Policy Officer and author of the report, explain why we must tackle wealth inequality - and the options the Government has for taxing wealth.

Immigrants aren’t the problem. Othering immigrants is a deliberate strategy to encourage people to hate each other rather than examine what severe wealth inequality is doing to our societies. Image from #SolidaritywithLA poster at US embassy bus stop in London.

👉 Our new @jrf-uk.bsky.social and @lseinequalities.bsky.social report finds that foregrounding the unfair political influence that extreme wealth can buy in narratives about wealth inequality increases support for higher taxes on the rich. With @michaelvaughan.bsky.social and Annalena Oppel.

LSE Inequalities@lseinequalities.bsky.social · last yr.

🧵New @jrf-uk.bsky.social and @lseinequalities.bsky.social report by @wealtherty.bsky.social @michaelvaughan.bsky.social and Annalena Oppel: We showcase three different ways of talking about wealth inequality and what difference it makes to public attitudes. 1/3 www.jrf.org.uk/wealth-fundi...

Great @lseinequalities.bsky.social post from @sachahilhorst.bsky.social & Insa Koch on the new class politics: “the political & analytical challenge ahead lies in recuperating the radical potential implied in corruption talk for a solidarity across ethnic, racial, gendered and generational lines.”

LSE Inequalities@lseinequalities.bsky.social · last yr.

Has class consciousness disappeared from UK politics – or merely taken on a new form? From their interviews with communities in several towns and cities, @sachahilhorst.bsky.social‬ & Insa Koch uncover attitudes to wealth and power that remain deeply classed #LSEInequalitiesBlog 🔗 buff.ly/f32BEYC

We've written to Pat McFadden welcoming the review of the ONS but also to express our concerns about plans to cut back work in areas like wellbeing & living standards to focus on core economic stats. Data on employment and growth are important but there's more to our economy - including unpaid care.

Letter to the Government about the independent review of the Office for National Statistics (ONS)

We welcome the independent review into the data collected and published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). We are writing to the Government and the UK Statistics Authority to ask that the te...

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Let's talk about tax! After 2 weeks of events organised by member states, NGOs, UN agencies & other multilateral institutions, listening to different voices from all over the world, WBG's Viktoria Szczypior shares her key take away from the 69th session of the Commission on the Status of Women.

New blog from Professor Susan Himmelweit and our Senior Research and Policy Officer, @ignaciapinto.bsky.social “Tax isn’t a burden—it’s how we build a fairer, more caring society.” Why we need progressive reform to tackle gender inequality. Read more: www.tax.org.uk/guest-blog-t...

🚨The chancellor's spring statement has reinforced the austerity doom loop the country is stuck in. Only by replacing the fiscal rules can we get out of this cycle of austerity and economic decline.

🙄 What does the persistent lack of good gender-sensitive data say about how much women matter in policy? 👉 Agnotology lit talks about ignorance as the effect of decisions made to take knowledge in some directions *and not in others*. We count what matters, right?

Women's Budget Group@womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social · 2y ago

ONS employment data out today highlights why we need better gender-sensitive economic data. Declining survey responses & reliance on admin data risk overlooking women’s contributions—especially unpaid care work. We need accurate gender-sensitive data to inform effective policymaking. 🧵 1/3

📣 Great opportunity to work with an organisation that is fleet, informed, puts out loads of amazing content and has a team you'd be mad not to want to work with. Looking forward to meeting the eventual role holder...

Fairness Foundation@fairness.bsky.social · 2y ago

JOB ALERT: ADVOCACY MANAGER 💼 We’re looking for an exceptional person to help us to build the profile of the Fairness Foundation with our core audience - the decision-makers and influencers who can help to build a fairer Britain. fairnessfoundation.com/jobs/advocac...

📣 Are you presenting a paper at the Social Policy Association conference this year? Does it have a tax dimension? If so - join our symposium! More detail here: www.linkedin.com/posts/sarah-...

Sarah Kerr on LinkedIn: Social Policy Association and East Asian Social Policy Research Network -…

📣 Are you presenting a paper at the Social Policy Association (SPA) Conference this year? 📣 📣 Does your paper have a tax dimension? 📣 📣 Would you like…

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📣 Out today - a new article with @michaelvaughan.bsky.social on visual representations of wealth inequality, by UK news media and civil society orgs journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🧵Happy to announce our Special Issue on the #Political and #Transformative Uses of #Time is out! Coedited by me & E Colin Ruggero. Many thanks to all our contributors and to @timeandsociety.bsky.social. Hope it will be useful for those thinking time politically. journals.sagepub.com/toc/tasa/34/1

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📣 Why should extreme wealth be at the heart of conversations about poverty, and social and economic justice? Join me & @mikesavagelse.bsky.social, Armine Ishkanian, @jrf-uk.bsky.social Frank Soodeen & Rajiv Prabhakar to discuss ideas in my new book. Sign up here: www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...

Wealth, poverty and enduring inequality: let's talk wealtherty

Public event at LSE | Sarah Kerr, Armine Ishkanian, Rajiv Prabhakar, Frank Soodeen | Weds 19 February, 6.00 to 7.30pm

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"Child poverty cannot be separated from women's poverty." Thank you @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social. We won't #EndChildPoverty if we don't also #EndWomen'sPoverty.

Women's Budget Group@womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social · 2y ago

📣 Our new report - Women’s and Children’s Poverty: Making the links - explores how women’s and children’s poverty are interconnected, and highlights solutions to address poverty. #EndChildPoverty www.wbg.org.uk/publication/...

🔥 Seeing these two chat about inequality is a *total* treat. And there's a whole mini-series! 🤓 🙏

INET - Institute for New Economic Thinking@ineteconomics.bsky.social · 2y ago

Inequality is about more than wealth. 👉 youtu.be/bMg-1raozPA 👀 Thomas Piketty & Michael Sandel argue that economic systems must restore dignity to workers, not just redistribute income. First in our mini-series based on their book "Equality: What It Means and Why It Matters"

Great thread from the consistently brilliant @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social here drawing out the gendered nature of housing poverty: 52% of housing support claimants with a shortfall between rent and housing benefit are single women v 18% single men. 66% of those women have dependent children.

Women's Budget Group@womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Chancellor must be bolder than the previous Govt and permanently re-link LHA rates to rents to ensure that housing benefit actually meets the cost of renting. Unless she acts on this, thousands of families will be pushed into poverty. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

4.3 million children are in poverty UK govt won’t see progress on child poverty by 2029 even with high economic growth 📢 Our analysis shows under our central scenario only Scotland will see child poverty rates fall by 2029 in part due to social security policies 1/5

What is the historical relationship between wealth & ethnic background in the UK? By matching surnames to likely ethnic groups, Prof Neil Cummins uncovers five surprising facts about the evolution of ethnic wealth gaps since the 1850s #LSEInequalitiesBlog

Ethnic wealth inequality in England: Surprising shifts from 1858 to today

What is the historical relationship between wealth and ethnic background in the UK? Until now, there has been little empirical work in this area. But by matching surnames to likely ethnic groups,&n…

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🔥 Love this new #TaxTheSuperrich DIY sheet from @taxjusticenet.bsky.social. Concise and accessible framing which communicates lots of information about tax and the economy per se, AND makes a compelling case for taxing those who can most afford it to deliver fairness for all. Perfection! 💪

Tax Justice Network@taxjustice.net · 2y ago

Extreme wealth is making our economies insecure, we must #TaxTheSuperrich. It's so straightforward, we can sum it up in a "wikihow" or DIY sheet. ✒️Sign up here and let’s fight for a fairer future for people and planet: taxthesuperrich.world taxjustice.net/2024/08/19/w...

📣 WE'RE HIRING! 📣 📚 We're looking for a Head of Research to lead the research team and portfolio of the UK's leading racial justice think tank ⏳ Deadline, Thursday 6th February (9am) Apply here 👉 ow.ly/VNZw50UKgnO