TAG: inequality
No more ‘business as usual’ in climate fight, UN boss warns ‘slipping’ politicians
LONDON — The world’s richest countries must end their “business as usual” approach to climate change or risk worsening global inequality, a leading United Nations diplomat warned Wednesday.Simon Stiell, executive secretary for U.N. Climate Change, told an...
6 months ago
How Ed Miliband became Britain’s most divisive government minister
LONDON — Six weeks on from Labour’s resounding election victory, no one in Keir Starmer’s Cabinet has moved quite as quickly as Ed Miliband. A former (failed) Labour leader, who critics deemed too left-wing and awkward to win over the British public, Mil...
2 months ago
Inequality isn’t the problem. Uneven growth is
Growing economic inequality is either “a major issue of our time” or “a defining challenge of our time,” depending on your taste for hyperbole. Given America’s recent experience, however, I would like to call for a timeout. What matters is not so much the...
4 weeks ago