Richard Wilkinson, Author at BSNEWS https://bsnews.info/author/richard-wilkinson/ News You Won't Find on BBC or ITN Sun, 25 Oct 2015 12:49:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://bsnews.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/cropped-truth1-55x55.jpg Richard Wilkinson, Author at BSNEWS https://bsnews.info/author/richard-wilkinson/ 32 32 49333625 How economic inequality harms societies https://bsnews.info/how-economic-inequality-harms-societies/ https://bsnews.info/how-economic-inequality-harms-societies/#respond Sun, 25 Oct 2015 12:48:02 +0000 http://bsnews.info/?p=12593 We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effects on health, lifespan, even such basic values as trust.

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