Responding to inequality

Enid R Pinch considers how Quakers might respond to inequality

by Enid R Pinch 28th June 2013

And never heed the tempests nor the storms…  - George Fox There’s a lot of despair about. It’s high time I shared the sticky notes. That’s not as daft as it sounds. This is a very special set of post-it notes.  At Yearly Meeting last year members of the Economics, Sustainability and Peace Sub-Committee of Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW) ran two workshops on the Monday morning. Jonathan Dale, David Milner, Sue Tyldesley and I ran the second of these. It was called ‘Responding to Inequality’. Our presentation was not particularly remarkable – a graph showing the growth of economic inequality since the 1970s, some graphs showing the positive correlation between inequality and a number of social ills and so on.