If the principal weapons against inequality were reports, commissions and panels, we’d have reached an egalitarian nirvana decades ago. This week’s report from the National Equality Panel – dubbed an ‘inequality bible’ by Harriet Harman – comes after dozens of think-tank reports and the publication of official poverty figures. But this report is important. Hills, when it comes to this kind of research, is the real deal – the Godfather of the Gini coefficient. The report he and his team have produced is a towering intellectual achievement. To me at least, a number of findings stood out: Read more...
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