Tag: Prof Sir Angus Deaton

• Tuesday, May 14th 2019 - 09:08 UTC

  Inequalities in UK threatening democracy, says the Institute for Fiscal Studies

  

  Inequalities in pay and opportunities in the UK are becoming so extreme they are threatening democracy, an Institute for Fiscal Studies study has said. The think tank warns of runaway incomes for high earners but rises in “deaths of despair”, such as from addiction and suicide, among the poorest.