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Prepare for the worst: this inequality rift will tear our society apart

Posted on 3 February 2017

Homelessness and child poverty have risen, the NHS is in dire financial straits, understaffed prisons have record suicide rates, the elderly lack social care – yet the rich continue to get richer, and continue to avoid taxes. This is an expression of abject moral bankruptcy.

Prof Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson from the Department of Health Sciences, write in the Guardian that the biggest rise in inequality since Thatcher is on its way, bringing economic instability, poverty, poor health, increased violence and fear among neighbours.

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