Excellent articles on inequality - tutor2u

https://storify.com/tomwhite/global-inequality

Interactive inequality website

As used by Max in his presentation.

http://inequality.is/

Why equality is better for everyone

video - http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/resources/why-equality-better-everyone

Text - http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/education/learn

The super rich - the greed game

BBC documentary with Robert Peston

As the credit crunch bites and a global economic crisis threatens, Robert Peston reveals how the super-rich have made their fortunes, and the rest of us are picking up the bill.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suZb9Z0b05I

The One Percent - documentary

This 80-minute documentary focuses on the growing "wealth gap" in America, as seen through the eyes of filmmaker Jamie Johnson, a 27-year-old heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune. Johnson, who cut his film teeth at NYU and made the Emmy®-nominated 2003 HBO documentary Born Rich, here sets his sights on exploring the political, moral and emotional rationale that enables a tiny percentage of Americans - the one percent - to control nearly half the wealth of the entire United States. The film Includes interviews with Nicole Buffett, Bill Gates Sr., Adnan Khashoggi, Milton Friedman, Robert Reich, Ralph Nader and other luminaries.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmlX3fLQrEc

The original film by Jamie, Born Rich - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xhuSxyHWRw

Park Avenue: money, power and the American dream - Why Poverty

Documentary on inequality in the USA.

740 Park Ave, New York City, is home to some of the wealthiest Americans. Across the Harlem River, 10 minutes to the north, is the other Park Avenue in South Bronx, where more than half the population needs food stamps and children are 20 times more likely to be killed. In the last 30 years, inequality has rocketed in the US -- the American Dream only applies to those with money to lobby politicians for friendly bills on Capitol Hill.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6niWzomA_So

Millionaire fair in Moscow

A festival has opened in Moscow for the super-rich in Russia who have everything, but would still like a little bit more.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11612765

The most equitable of the BRIC economies

The conventional image of Russia is a country of a few super-rich oil barons and more than 100 million paupers. Despite having more dollar billionaires than almost any other nation, the inequality in Russia is growing more slowly than any of the BRIC countries and incomes are more evenly distributed than in the United States.
http://rbth.ru/articles/2010/09/22/most_equitable_bric04961.html

Scottish income inequality 2007/08

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2009/05/povertyfigures0708

ONS article on income inequality

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=332

UK inequality

BBC news articles:
'More inequality' in rich nations - Since 2000, income inequality had risen sharply in the US and Germany and declined in the UK, Mexico and Greece. Poverty is defined as applying to households with less than half the median income.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7681435.stm

Also:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7681361.stm

Are you better off under Labour? - Income inequality in 2003/4 was around 40% higher by the commonly used measure (the Gini coefficient) than when Mrs Thatcher came to power.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/issues/4469615.stm

Poverty, inequality and government intervention

http://www.scribd.com/doc/21388687

Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare

The Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare is an economic indicator intended to replace the gross domestic product. Rather than simply adding together all expenditures like the gross domestic product, consumer expenditure is balanced by such factors as income distribution and cost associated with pollution and other economically unsustaining costs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_of_Sustainable_Economic_Welfare

Human Development Index

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a comparative measure of life expectancy, literacy, education and standards of living for countries worldwide. It is a standard means of measuring well-being, especially child welfare. It is used to distinguish whether the country is a developed, a developing or an under-developed country, and also to measure the impact of economic policies on quality of life. The index was developed in 1990 by Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq and Indian economist Amartya Sen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index

Trends in UK income inequality

The distribution of income and wealth and the extent to which the benefits of economic growth and development are dispersed across society remains one of the the most important issues facing every country
http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/economics/comments/trends-in-uk-income-inequality/

UK income gap same as in 1991

After 11 years of Labour government, the gap between the income of the richest and poorest households is unchanged, according to new figures.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7786149.stm

Would you be willing to pay 60% tax for a higher level of social equality?

The Scandinavian countries are well known for their high living standards, equal opportunities and overall well being. It comes with a hefty personal financial price which some believe is well worth the investment.
http://www.thepersonalfinancier.com/2008/07/would-you-be-willing-to-pay-60-tax-for.html

Wikipedia - economic inequality

Interesting article on the concept of inequality - possible reasons and the problems that arise.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_inequalityhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif

TUC suggest taxing the rich at a higher rate

People taking home more than £100,000 a year should pay higher tax rates, the Trades Union Congress has suggested.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7602026.stm