The Work Foundation has produced a new report looking into inequality in British cities. It’s a tricky subject to deal with, because urban inequality is very different in character from inequality on a national, or international, scale: for instance, the report finds that within an unequal city, people are far more concerned about “spatial inequality” – the existence of neighbourhoods with high levels of poverty – rather than what might be considered more robust measures, like wage or wealth inequality.
But there’s one thing which isn’t complex at all: the pattern of inequality. This graph is probably my favourite in the whole report:
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