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Inequality

Inequality is the cross-cutting theme to all problems we need to solve: Be it the climate crisis or the division of society – you cannot fully understand the issues without thinking about inequalities. The United Nations have therefore formulated the reduction of inequalities as an independent sustainability goal of the 2030 Agenda, No. 10: Inequality should be reduced within and between countries – “Leave no one behind!”

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What are the Sustainable Development Goals, also known as SDGs? If you want more information about the SDGs, you find it here: 17 SDGs.

Different forms of Inequality

Because there is not “the one” inequality, it makes sense to take a closer look at the various forms. The distinction also helps to understand that different forms of inequality are intertwined and reinforce each other. The pandemic has not affected everyone equally, but mainly those on lower incomes, people with poorer access to education, and BIPoCBlack, Indigenious, People of Colour. If you are interested in a specific category, simply click on the category under the title of the post – and you will be taken to the topic and all posts related to it. Or simply choose one of the following topics and categories:

Article-Online Economy-Finance Taxes
EU losing 5 times Greenland’s GDP to Trump’s tax conquest, experts warn as UN tax talks resume

Tax Justice Network | Without any public debate, EU countries have agreed to exempt US multinationals from most of the elements of the global minimum tax – when the tax dodging of those same US multinationals costs the bloc €14 billion in lost revenues each year. The loss is a significant underminin...

| Tax Justice Network
Taxes Report Source
The last chance Why 2026 is the critical moment for governments to end appeasement, and stand up for our tax sovereignty

Tax Justice Network | 2025 saw two quite different types of negotiations in international tax. In one, the countries of the world have been negotiating at the United Nations, to agree how they can cooperate to end the vast tax abuse of multinational companies and wealthy individuals with hidden offs...

| Tax Justice Network
Wealth Article-Online Income Data Economy-Finance Social Inequality
Economy Wealth inequality and the ‘K-shaped’ economy are more striking than ever, data shows

CNBC | The gap between the best and worse off Americans is growing — and economists don’t see an end in sight. The “K-shaped” economy has been top of mind for consumers, corporate leaders, policymakers and investors since the Covid pandemic drastically reshaped Americans’ financial habits almost six...

| Alex Harring
Health Article-Online Income Social Inequality
Inequality and health: Lost in the mists of time?

LSE Inequalities | Inequality has a profoundly negative effect on health and wellbeing, write Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett. Not because it suddenly kills, but because it slowly reshapes how people live, relate, cope, and age. Rather than behaving like a toxin that produces a sudden spike in mo...

| Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett
Wealth Article-Online Elite Overwealth
Democracy at risk: Resisting the rule of the richest

LSE Inequalities | Oxfam’s latest annual world inequality report documents how the world’s 3,000 or so billionaires increased their collective fortune by $2.5 trillion in 2025 – a sum that could eradicate extreme poverty 26 times over – while billions at the bottom end continue to go hungry. But be...

| Carlos Brown Solà
Article-Online Income Social Inequality Education
Student loans: ‘My debt rose £20,000 to £77,000 even though I’m paying’

The Guardian | Millions of graduates are trapped by ballooning debts, as their repayments are dwarfed by the interest added.

Source: The Guardian.

| Rupert Jones
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