{"id":1646,"date":"2003-02-10T03:54:08","date_gmt":"2003-02-10T03:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2011-03-01T01:54:54","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T01:54:54","slug":"poverty-and-inequality-since-1992","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/?p=1646","title":{"rendered":"Poverty and Inequality since 1992"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Bruce Duncan CSsR,<\/p>\n<p>in <em>A Fair Society: Common Wealth for the Common Good: ten years on<\/em>. Australian Catholic Social Justice Series,\u00a0Sydney: Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, 2003, pp. 13-28.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/02\/Poverty-and-Inequality-since-1992_opt.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2396\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"Poverty and Inequality since 1992_opt\" src=\"http:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/02\/Poverty-and-Inequality-since-1992_opt.jpg\" alt=\"Poverty and Inequality since 1992\" width=\"175\" height=\"117\" \/><\/a>Concern about poverty, equity and the distribution of income and wealth was central to the 1992 Catholic Bishops\u2019 statement,\u00a0<em>Common Wealth for the Common Good: a statement on the distribution of wealth in Australia<\/em>. This 198-page document examined the causes of the growth in poverty and inequality of income, and made a number of recommendations to enhance social equity and reduce poverty.<\/p>\n<p>Ten years later, we can ask how Australia compares on these issues.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Has poverty been reduced?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And have changes in distribution of income and wealth reduced or increased inequalities?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/02\/Duncan-PovertyInequality.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a> to read the full article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Bruce Duncan CSsR, in A Fair Society: Common Wealth for the Common Good: ten years on. Australian Catholic Social Justice Series,\u00a0Sydney: Australian Catholic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1651,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions\/1651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}