Kate Pickett
Kate Pickett will be speaking at the TUC Congress fringe meeting “Building a more equal society: the role of economic democracy” on Mon 14 Sep 12:45-14:00
Despite the dominant trends in politics and economics over the last thirty years a consistent and large majority of the population still believe that the UK should be more equal. In July 2007 the Joseph Rowntree Foundation reported in its survey “Public Attitudes to Economic Inequality” that:
“Over the last 20 years, a large and enduring majority of people (73% in 2004) have considered the gap between high and low incomes too large” … “People do not necessarily think that those on low incomes are underpaid, but that those on higher incomes are very overpaid”.
We now have new and compelling evidence to bolster this widespread and intuitive view that great inequality is damaging to a society.
