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LSE Housing, LSE Cities and Joseph Rowntree Foundation Lecture, Debate and Book Launch
Phoenix Cities - surviving financial, social and environmental turmoil in Europe and the US?

Date:	Tuesday 16th March 2010 18.00-19.45
Location:	Sheikh Zayed Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, New Academic Building, London School of Economics
Cost:	The event is free but a ticket is required
For tickets and further information please see: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2010/20100316t1800vSZT.aspx, or contact Anna Tamas, Email: a.tamas@lse.ac.uk.

Summary:

This lecture and debate mark the launch of a new book Phoenix Cities: The fall and rise of great industrial cities.

• Lord Richard Rogers, international prize-winning architect, will offer his vision what the urban renaissance means for the 21st century;
• Bruce Katz, Head of the Metropolitan Program and Vice-President of the Brookings Institution, Washington DC, will report on the future of divided US cities in Obama’s America;
• Anne Power, Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics will outline the dramatic decline, turnaround and prospects of seven struggling European cities;
• Julia Unwin, Chief Executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, will round-up the event.

This event will debate where next for Phoenix Cities, given the economic shocks, the pressures of climate change and the social inequalities that sharply divide struggling cities. A panel of city reformers from European cities will give their reactions to these questions and Sir Howard Davies, Director of the London School of Economics, will Chair the lecture.

For tickets and further information please see:
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2010/20100316t1800vSZT.aspx, or contact Anna Tamas, Email: a.tamas@lse.ac.uk. Phoenix Cities will be available to purchase at the event at a discounted rate of £20. Registration and refreshments will be from 5.15pm and a reception will follow the event 7.45-8.30pm.

For more details please see the Phoenix Cities flyer (in Adobe PDF format)

The Guardian
Unequal Britain: richest 10 per cent are now 100 times better off than the poorest

'An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK' - the Report of the National Equality Panel - which was launched on Wednesday 27 January 2010, addresses questions such as how far up or down do people from different backgrounds typically come in the distributions of earnings, income or wealth.

Below are the links to some of the media coverage of this report:

Guardian
Unequal Britain: richest 10 per cent are now 100 times better off than the poorest
Commissioned by Harriet Harman, minister for women and equality, the National Equality Panel has been working on the 460-page document for 16 months, led by Prof John Hills, of the London School of Economics.
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Times
Gap between rich and poor at its widest since the war
The divide between rich and poor is greater after 13 years of Labour rule than at any time since the Second World War, according to the Government's own report into inequality. The report was written by Professor John Hills, at the London School of Economics and the new National Equality Panel.
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Financial Times
Social advantages still shape life chances
People's origins shape their life chances from cradle to grave, the biggest study of equality and inequality in Britain has demonstrated. John Hills, the panel's chair and professor of social policy at the London School of Economics, quoted.
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BBC News
Rich-poor divide 'wider than 40 years ago'
Neighbourhood renewal policy action is needed, according to the report. "Most political parties and people subscribe to the ideal of 'equality of opportunity'," panel chair Professor John Hills, of the London School of Economics, told the BBC.
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Daily Telegraph
Labour's failures are breeding inequality
Harriet Harman has declared herself the champion of equality, and in this role is pushing legislation through Parliament in the best levelling spirit. It is noted that she commissioned a report from the National Equality Panel, chaired by Professor John Hills of the LSE.
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Related links:
Listen to John Hills on the Today Programme (available for 5 days after broadcast)
Download the report, summary, executive summary and charts and statistical annex
The National Equality Panel
John Hills webpage

BBC Radio 4 - The Today Programme
The gap between rich and poor in the UK is wider now than it was 40 years ago, according to a National Equality Panel report.

The gap between rich and poor in the UK is wider now than it was 40 years ago, according to a National Equality Panel report. John Hills, the panel's chair and Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics, explains its findings.

'An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK' - the Report of the National Equality Panel - was launched on Wednesday 27 January 2010.

The independent National Equality Panel was set up at the invitation of the Government in 2008 to investigate the relationships between the distributions of various kinds of economic outcome on the one hand and people's characteristics and circumstances on the other. The report addresses questions such as how far up or down do people from different backgrounds typically come in the distributions of earnings, income or wealth.

Related links:
Listen to John Hills on the Today Programme (available for 5 days after broadcast)

Download the report, summary, executive summary and charts and statistical annex

The National Equality Panel

John Hills webpage

Report Launch
An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK - Report of the National Equality Panel

Wednesday, 27 January 2009: 3.15pm - 4.50pm

New Academic Building, Wolfson Theatre
London School of Economics

Chair: David Piachaud, London School of Economics

Presentations from:

• John Hills, LSE and Chair, National Equality Panel
• Stephen Jenkins, Essex University and member of National Equality Panel

Responses from:

• Tony Atkinson, Visiting Professor, LSE
• Lisa Harker, Co-Director, Institute for Public Policy Research
• Max Wind-Cowie, Progressive Conservatism Project, DEMOS

The National Equality Panel was set up in October 2008 at the invitation of Rt Hon Harriet Harman MP, Minister for Women and Equality, to investigate how inequalities in people's economic outcomes (such as earnings, income and wealth) are related to their characteristics of circumstances (such as gender, age and ethnicity). The Panel's report is published on 27th January 2010.

This seminar will present and discuss the main findings of the report.

The full report, summary and executive summary, charts and statistical annex are available to download from the CASE publications website at http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/case/_new/publications/NEP.asp