Speaker Request
If you are interested in hearing more about the effects of Income Inequality in Scotland then please...
Letter to the Wall Street Journal
Professors Kate Pickett & Richard Wilkinson ...
Minimum Income Standard (report)
This has been lifted directly from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation website A minimum income st...
Creative Solutions
There are many initiatives around the world that interact with money in new and creative ways. Here...
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Speaker Request
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Letter to the Wall Street Journal
Thursday, 29 July 2010 10:59 -
Minimum Income Standard (report)
Thursday, 29 July 2010 11:35 -
Creative Solutions
Friday, 14 May 2010 22:20
Income Inequality
The financial gap between the rich and the poor has become unhealthy for us all. Support the Scotland Equality Group by joining our campaigns. You can help us to raise awareness of the social and personal benefits of national income equality.
Create an equality group in our online community. Contact Julie or William for details.The Evidence
Great inequality is the scourge of modern societies. We provide the evidence on each of eleven different health and social problems: physical health, mental health, drug abuse, education, imprisonment, obesity, social mobility, trust and community life, violence, teenage births, and child well-being. For all eleven of these health and social problems, outcomes are very substantially worse in more unequal societies. Read more. . .
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Equality news
The Scottish Government is working to lift the attainment of the lowest achievers and raise the overall level of achievement in Scotland, Education Secretary Michael ...Read More
'Tam’s book is an intellectual tour de force, an erudite romp through the history of civilization that highlights the origins of power and the neverending ...Read More
This publication presents annual estimates of the proportion and number of children, working age adults and pensioners living in low income households in Scotland and ...Read More
We are delighted to announce that, last night (19th May), The Spirit Level won the book prize at the Bristol Festival of Ideas. The prize ...Read More
We provide this information so that you might become better aquatinted with what information the Government collects so that it can plan how to tackle ...Read More
The Equality Pledge
On the day that the General Election was called, the total number of candidates who had signed the Equality Pledge had reached 264.
Find out whether your candidates have signed here ....
... and if not, please use the Equality Trusts' tool to write and ask them to sign.
Find out whether your candidates have signed here ....
... and if not, please use the Equality Trusts' tool to write and ask them to sign.
Latest Documents
Low Pay in Scotland
Spirit-level-slides
How to tackle inequality?