Inequality

• [New] Individual cases have the potential to influence important legislative and policy changes that will be key to addressing the core challenges at the intersection of climate change and social inequality in Ireland.
• [New] Health inequity is real, and it contributes to worse outcomes and higher risk for people with diabetes, a reality that has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 epidemic.
• [New] Climate action presents an opportunity for the United States not only to seize upon the next generation of technologies and manufacturing, but also contribute to ending systemic racial inequities, fortify frontline communities and ensure that clean energy benefits are accrued equitably.
• Climate change and other environmental harms such as air pollution and deforestation increase the risk of future pandemics and leave the world vulnerable.
• When looking toward 2021, Deloitte emphasized, Societies around the world now expect banks to help address income inequality, racial and gender inequity, and climate change.
• The vast income inequality in the United States is evidence of capitalism's failings, a capitalist might see UBI policies as a cure - all for income inequality that lets them avoid institutional accountability for creating that inequality in the first place.
• Given that climate change weighs heavily on existing vulnerabilities and inequalities, and will disproportionately affect people in the Global South who have contributed the least to causing it, enabling mobility is not just an adaptation strategy, but an integral part of climate justice.
• New infrastructure projects will not only create jobs in the construction sector, but will also enable Indonesia to diversify its economy and reduce territorial inequalities.
• In terms of providing access to opportunity, enabling social mobility and reducing inequality and inequity, nothing comes close to the impact that subsidised higher education has had on Nigerians - flawed as it is.
• To truly recover in the years ahead, Europe will need a new socio-ecological contract bringing together questions of inequality, climate and the digital economy.
• The obvious advantages of introducing a wealth tax in South Africa are that it will increase fiscal revenue and, at the same time, it would be seen as a measure to reduce the inequality in income levels between the rich and the poor.
• The fate of the initiative which so far lacks support from Republicans will help determine whether Biden delivers on a core pocketbook issue as US income inequality widens during the Covid-19 pandemic.
• Digital inclusion will be an important agenda as one third of the world's children could not access remote learning during the pandemic, which is exacerbating global inequality.
• The fate of the initiative - which so far lacks support from Republicans - will help determine whether Biden delivers on a core pocketbook issue as US income inequality widens during the Covid-19 pandemic.
• The growing income and wealth inequalities - not only in the United States but also in most regions of the world - will breed further discontent, fray social cohesion and potentially undermine recovery efforts.
• While U.S. capitalism has long allowed for inequality of outcomes, in the last thirty years we have increasingly seen the rise of inequality of opportunity as well.
• Proponents of the wealth tax argue that it could help address the United States' rising wealth and income inequality while also generating revenues.
• Lower barriers to immigration could lead to migration playing a bigger role in future reductions of extreme poverty and global inequality.
• Where is the US headed politically depends a great deal on the degree that socioeconomic elites will continue to perpetuate conditions that exacerbate inequality manifesting itself in political polarization, but expressed as culture wars.
• An Oxfam survey of 295 economists in 79 countries confirms it; 87% of respondents expect income inequality to increase in their country as a result of coronavirus.

Last updated: 28 February 2021