Growing inequality in modern Britain and its impact on Britain's
impoverished communities
(Danny Dorling, Sheffield University)……… ...
Fairness Commission28th March 2012
National polarisation
Regionally the number of people near every person has been falling around Glasgow, in the North West and North East of England (purple) and growing massively in the South East (shades of green).
Local polarisation
sharpens
Some evidence of absolute rises in health inequalities prior to 2005
For every age group there is data
Sheffield: Road traffic casualties 2005–2007:
children aged 0–10
Brightside 69 Attercliffe 67 Central 54 Heeley 42 Hillsborough 30Hallam 11
In a city like Sheffield the
16+ yearlife expectancy
gap is sustained by
continual differential migration
These are not ‘long
established’ divides in
terms of their magnitude
Divides have been reduced before
Last week’s tax cuts gave each person earning
£1 million a year over £40,000 extra a year. Three dozen millionaires were given
around £1.5 million (or just
one person ‘earning’ £36m).
Within Sheffield from April 6th 20124630 children lose up to £1.5million
Constituency Number of Households
Number of children in those households
Penistone and Stocksbridge 170 280Sheffield Central 325 715
Sheffield South East 550 1255
Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough 720 1750
Sheffield, Hallam Too few to be reported
Sheffield, Heeley 355 630
Number of couples with children and children benefiting from Working Family Tax Credit and who are working between 16 and 24 hours as of December 2011Who will lose up to £728pa in WFTC from April unless they can increase their working hours to 24+ per week.
Other well-off constituencies
£22.8 million lost to 84,000 children every year in these places - contrast
However, A 50% stake in Meadowhall shopping centre sold for £588m in 1989
http://www.sharecast.com/cgi-bin/sharecast/story.cgi?story_id=2598543
Question: How much profitA year has to be extracted to justify a value of £1.17bn?Answer, a lot more than £22.8m
In more equitable countriesthe felt need to
consume is less so less is wasted
and thrown away
In some affluent
countries the top 1% have never had
less than they have todayAnd the
trains still run on time. And they still have bankers and
industry.
It’s remarkable how hard organisations
find it to think what they should do
about inequality
The plug
http://www.newint.org/books/no-nonsense-
guides/equality/
The End.
Thank you