Strange how political commentators and many politicians state, as fact, that inequality is rising when the opposite is fact.
Another example of cognitive bias?
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You might think, if the prime minister is saying this, Britain must be suffering from a crisis of rising inequality. In fact, as official figures released shortly after her speech showed, inequality has been falling. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported that in the 2015-16 tax year inequality in Britain measured by the Gini coefficient fell to its lowest since 1986. As the ONS put it: “There has been a gradual decline in income inequality in the last 10 years, with levels similar to those seen in the mid to late 1980s.”
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