If you lose your job during the pandemic, that’s not your fault, right? Sadly, and absurdly, that isn’t the majority view in Britain today.
Inequality
So far, a mere ten countries account for an astonishing 75 percent of global vaccinations. 130 countries have received not yet received a single dose. “Vaccine equality,” the UN observes, “is the biggest moral test before the global community”.
Source Direct: Covid’s Global Scars
Glasgow Disability Alliance has released its manifesto calling for Scotland’s political parties to urgently address disabled people’s rights and experiences of inequality.
Calls for Scotland to urgently tackle widening inequality faced by disabled people
Coronavirus, many imagine, is the great equaliser. However, new figures from Oxfam paint a very different picture.
Source Direct: Plunder and Pandemic
In new YouGov research for Citizens Advice Scotland, polling showed that 46% of Scots run out of money before payday since Covid-19 restrictions began.
Almost half of Scots run out of money by payday.
Craig Dalzell has written a detailed response on Source here to the new restrictions imposed by the Scottish Government yesterday. Dalzell looks at the evidence report that the new measures are based on, which is really well worth a read if you have the time. Crucially, the evidence report finds that “at the current rate of growth (7 per cent increase per […]
The Great Barrington Declaration is Capitalist Realism for the pandemic-age
Shelter Scotland have released a report calling for an increase in the amount of social housing promised by the Scottish Government – to the equivalent of an additional house built every day for the next five years.
Scotland Needs 37,100 Social Homes to Meet Demand
The Scottish Household Survey has just been published. This data provides the most detailed account of the demographic make-up of Scotland’s communities, and how it has changed over time. It also provides information on people’s views and beliefs on a number of issues, from climate change to religious belonging. Here, we will focus on what the […]
Scotland’s communities: divided by money
Glasgow Disability Alliance claim inequalities have been ‘supercharged’ by Covid19, and are calling on the Scottish Government to listen to the voices of disabled people.
Disability Inequality ‘Supercharged’ by Covid-19
“Targets to reduce child poverty must not be allowed to be a casualty of COVID-19. Any plan for recovery must prioritise these recommendations, or this will almost certainly be the outcome.”