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  • July 1, 2013
    TUC launch practical policies to close Britain's £85bn wage gap

    The share of the economy going to wages fell by more than five per cent between 1980 and 2011.The TUC says increasing inequality hits low and middle income earners hardest.

  • January 20, 2013
    Richest 100 people could end global poverty four times over, says Oxfam

    An explosion in extreme wealth is exacerbating inequality and hindering the world's ability to tackle poverty together, Oxfam warns this weekend.

  • January 10, 2013
    Huge income inequality is violence, says French Protestant leader

    A senior French Protestant has called growing income inequality a form of violence and has asked for self-restraint among high earners in a time of austerity.

  • January 10, 2013
    In praise of income limits: a call for self-regulation

    The gap between very high incomes and low salaries has been widening for several years, says Laurent Schlumberger, president of the national council of the Reformed Church of France. Where governments and consumers are reluctant to act, there is still a moral imperative on high earners to refuse grossly unequal remuneration, he argues.

  • May 11, 2012
    Trusting in what is not real

    The Bible says more about money than about almost any other ethical issue. In a world where critics of capitalism are described as "unrealistic", Christians can point to a greater reality than the dominant values of our own time and culture. We can recognise that capitalism depends on faith in the idols of money and markets.

  • November 9, 2011
    Americans believe in a fairer distribution of wealth

    A strong majority (60 per cent) of Americans believe that their society would be better off if the distribution of wealth were more equal.

  • August 20, 2011
    A mansion tax and the realities of class

    Britain may be broke, but the government's desperation to cut the deficit seems to have its limits. This morning, Eric Pickles has ruled out an increase in council tax for houses valued at more than £1million. He is portraying measures that would affect only the richest as an attack on the "middle class". In reality, the government is consistent in pursuing the interests of the very wealthy at the expense of the rest of us.

  • August 16, 2011
    Sex, violence and Bible top the agenda for Christian students

    Homophobia, nonviolent direct action, the politics of the Bible and the gap between rich and poor have been on the agenda at a gathering of Christian students.

  • August 10, 2011
    Riots, looting and the hypocrisy of Boris Johnson

    The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, appeared on Radio 4 this morning (10 August) and was asked about the underlying causes of the recent riots. He attributed them to a “sense of entitlement” among young people who were showing the effects of a lack of discipline in school.

  • January 31, 2011
    Church charity calls for action to close gap between rich and poor

    Church Action on Poverty has called for a closing of the growing gap between rich and poor in the UK.