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While politics is fractured and weak, society must tackle our lamentable inequalities
Government struggles to fill up positions after commissioners quit the body last year
‘Opportunity areas’ aim to improve educational attainment and social mobility
Brexit focus leaves ‘little hope’ for prime minister’s promise of a fairer Britain
A new initiative will make it easier to see which employers are breaking the ‘class ceiling’
Duncan Smith abandons effort to replace relative income measure with life chances statistics
Social mobility chief says ministers must work with business to improve living standards and skills
Procurement policies undermine employer efforts to boost wages
Report says graduates from privileged backgrounds make up 70% of elite financial services job offers
Campaigners say practice discriminates against candidates from disadvantaged backgrounds
Just over a third did not go to university, study finds
The last government was one of the most prudent of modern era, say John Hutton and Alan Milburn
Social mobility commission report warns of increase in poverty
Milburn says £8 target by 2020 is not ambitious enough
The fiscal squeeze and demographics create the circumstances for change, writes Alan Milburn
Tsar’s report shows UK can do more to tackle poverty
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