{"id":7340,"date":"2011-11-30T19:15:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T18:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=7340"},"modified":"2011-11-30T19:16:46","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T18:16:46","slug":"the-link-between-social-mobility-and-income-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=7340","title":{"rendered":"The link between social mobility and income inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;The idea that anyone can, by their own merits and hard work, improve their social and economic position is one of the dominant political themes of our times. Encouraging social mobility, both within a person\u2019s lifetime (intra- generational social mobility) and from one generation to the next (inter- generational social mobility), has become a key objective for all the UK\u2019s main political parties. However, evidence shows that in order to achieve greater social mobility we must first tackle the UK\u2019s high level of inequality and reduce the income gap between rich and poor.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a quote from \u00a0a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.equalitytrust.org.uk\/docs\/factsheet-social-mobility.pdf\">fact sheet<\/a> produced by The Equality Trust, the organisation formed as a result of the publication of the seminal work &#8220;The Spirit Level&#8221; [see my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/currentaffairs.html#TSL\">here<\/a>]. The fact sheet features a graph with a very clear message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The idea that anyone can, by their own merits and hard work, improve their social and economic position is one of the dominant political themes of our times. Encouraging social mobility, both within a person\u2019s lifetime (intra- generational social mobility) and from one generation to the next (inter- generational social mobility), has become a key [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs","category-social-policy","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7340"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7344,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7340\/revisions\/7344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}