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UK cannot duck covid inequalities
5th January 2021
An IFS report highlights the fact that post-Covid the UK will need to make a genuine attempt to tackle inequality.
This report is covered here by BBC News
In a direct challenge to the notion that "We're All in This Together", it's clearly the case that the impact of the pandemic has fallen disproportionately heavily upon ethnic minority group and the most disadvantaged, and something has to be done to tackle this.
NEW: In a New Year’s message from our Deaton Review into Inequalities, we've published new analysis showing how various inequalities grew in 2020 and are unlikely to close again unless action is taken.
— Institute for Fiscal Studies (@TheIFS) January 5, 2021
Read the report, funded by @NuffieldFound, here > https://t.co/P2gdmxor5B pic.twitter.com/yYFTNFEby0
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