A Tale of Two Britains: Inequality in the UK
| dc.contributor.author | Dransfield, Sarah | * |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-03-17T11:50:18Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2014-03-17T11:50:18Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-03-17 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10546/314152 | |
| dc.description | <p>Inequality is a growing problem in the UK. While austerity measures in Britain continue to hit the poorest families hardest, a wealthy elite has seen their incomes spiral upwards, exacerbating income inequality which has grown under successive governments over the last quarter of a century.</p> <p>Today, the five richest families in the UK are wealthier than the bottom 20 per cent of the entire population. That’s just five households with more money than 12.6 million people – almost the same as the number of people living below the poverty line in the UK.</p> <p>Starting with this week’s Budget, the government needs to re-balance the books by raising revenues from those who can afford it - by clamping down on companies and individuals who avoid paying their fair share of tax and by starting to explore greater taxation of extreme wealth – rather than relying on cuts to services that have a disproportionate impact on the poorest in society, some 13 million people who are currently classed as living below the poverty line.</p> | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 4 | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | English | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Oxfam GB | en_US |
| dc.relation.url | https://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/a-tale-of-two-britains-inequality-in-the-uk-314152 | |
| dc.subject | Economics | |
| dc.subject | Inequality | |
| dc.title | A Tale of Two Britains: Inequality in the UK | en_US |
| dc.type | Media briefing | en_US |
| oxfam.signoff.status | For public use. Can be shared outside Oxfam. | en_US |
| oxfam.subject.country | United Kingdom | en_US |
| oxfam.subject.keyword | Finance | en_US |
| oxfam.subject.keyword | UK poverty | en_US |
| oxfam.subject.keyword | Inequality | en_US |
| oxfam.subject.keyword | Poverty in the UK | en_US |
| oxfam.subject.keyword | Taxation | en_US |
| oxfam.subject.keyword | Welfare | en_US |
| dc.year.issuedate | 2014 | en_US |
| refterms.dateFOA | 2018-08-17T17:54:36Z |
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