Call Mr. Robeson comes to Wellingborough

Black History Month 2016 and Hate Crime Awareness Week

Wellingborough Afro-Caribbean Association (WACA) 

presents in conjuction with

Northamptonshire Rights and Equality Council (NREC), UNISON, UNITE–the union, National Union of Teacher, Independent Socialists in Wellingborough (ISW), The Big Lottery

Paul Robeson is a world-famous actor, singer and civil rights campaigner. When he gets too radical and outspoken for the establishment's liking, he is branded a traitor to his country, is harassed, and denied opportunities to perform or travel.

This roller-coaster journey through Robeson’s remarkable life highlights how his pioneering and heroic political activism led many to describe him as the forerunner of the civil rights movement. It features some famous songs (including a dramatic rendition of Ol’ Man River), speeches, and a spectacularly defiant testimony to the US Senate House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s.

Friday   October 14th   2016

7.30pm

FREE Caribbean buffet food from 6.00pm

Rock Street Centre Rock Street

Wellingborough NN8 4LW

Tickets:

£6.00 in advance (see below)

£8.00 on the door

           

Disabled access             BSL Signers for the deaf

Advanced bookings: https://callmrrobeson.eventbrite.co.uk

Or tickets can be purchased from WACA and

NREC (cash or cheque – payable to WACA)

Further info: telephone Paul 07872836463

or iswwellingborough@gmail.com

     

Privately educated children earn more than state-educated children with the same grades

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Explaining the data

The figures on earnings for privately-educated children were calculated by the Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank and can be viewed here -http://www.ifs.org.uk/uploads/publications/pr/graduate_earnings_301014.pdf

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There are more disadvantaged children in Britain than in many other advanced economies

A higher proportion of UK children grow up in households with incomes well below the national median, while more young people in the UK are not in education, employment or training

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Explaining the data

These figures are taken from the UNICEF Innocenti Report Card, an annual comparison of living standards for children and young people in advanced economies. The figures are from 2012 (child poverty) and 2013 (young people not in education, training or employment) because these are the figures used in the most recent version of the report. You can read the full report here:http://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/pdf/rc12-eng-web.pdf

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Top Universities are dominated by students who went to private school: Barely half of entrants to Oxford University are state educated, compared to 93% of the wider population

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Explaining the data

These figures were taken from the Higher Education Statistics Agency. You can see the full results at https://www.hesa.ac.uk/pis/urg

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There are more low-paid workers in the UK than in other advanced economies

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Explaining the data

This data is taken from the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development database via http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DatasetCode=AV_AN_WAGE. Figures are for 2012 and 2013, and are the most recent available for each country. More detailed figures on UK employment are available from the Office for National Statistics ‘jobs statistics’ at http://ons.gov.uk/ons/taxonomy/index.html?nscl=Job+Statistics#tab-data-tables

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The richest 10% of the population get richer whilst incomes for the poorest 10% plummet

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Explaining the data

Explaining the data: These figures were calculated by the New Economics Foundation (NEF) as part of their ‘Real Britain Index’ - http://www.realbritainindex.org/. NEF calculated a more detailed inflation figure for each decile (group of 10%) of the UK population from richest to poorest, based on their spending habits (for example, the poorest decile spend a higher proportion of their income on food, so are hit harder by food price increases, but are less likely to be affected by changes in the cost of luxury goods). NEF then used these inflation figures to calculate the year-on-year change in the incomes of each decile. Since the data used in this infographic was published, inflation has fallen, giving hope that real incomes of poorer households will rise. But this will also depend on factors such as low pay and cuts to social security. 

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Top bosses pay increases are way out of proportion to company performance

Britain's top executives are supposed to be paid according to how their companies perform - but pay in recent years has increased far more quickly than performance.

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Explaining the data

Explaining the data: This research was carried out for the High Pay Centre by Incomes Data Services. You can see the full report at www.highpaycentre.org

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The gap between the richest and poorest region in the UK is the biggest in Europe

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Explaining the data

These figures are taken from data compiled by Eurostat, the data agency of the European Union. Although we have only shown figures for a selection of countries commonly compared with the UK in terms of equality and economic success, there is no other country in the whole of the EU where the richest region is nearly 5 times as rich as the poorest. The currency used by Eurostat is the ‘Purchasing Power Standard’, an economic measurement that accounts for differences in the value of different currencies, as well as the different costs in different areas.  Full data is available fromhttp://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/tgm/table.do?tab=table&init=1&language=en&pcode=tgs00005&plugin=1   

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Great wealth exists in the UK alongside unimaginable poverty

Since 2009 executive pay has soared and the number of billionaires has increased, while food bank use has rocketed and pay for ordinary workers has fallen

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Explaining the data

The data on UK billionaires is taken from the Sunday Times rich list, which can be read on-line, for a subscription fee. The data on executive pay was compiled for the High Pay Centre by Incomes Data Services, who looked at pay for Directors of FTSE 350 companies, the 350 biggest companies listed on the London Stock Exchange. You can read the full report here. The Office for National Statisticsrecords figures for wages across the whole UK workforce. Both directors’ and workers’ pay has been adjusted for inflation. Finally, the number  of people given at least 3 days worth of food by a Trussel Trust foodbank is taken from the Trust’s website.

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The rich get richer, the poor get poorer. What a surprise!

Between 2007 and 2013, cash benefits paid to the richest fifth of the population increased by 42%. For the poorest fifth, benefits fell by 5%

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Explaining the data

Here we have relied on a dataset produced by the Office for National Statistics. This data tracks the effects of taxes and benefits on household income over time. The series runs from 1977 to 2013 and is available here (table 14a). These figures are produced based on the average amount of cash benefits, original income and gross income received by households across the income distribution. We have rounded figures to the nearest whole number for clarity, but for accuracy the bottom, middle and top income quintiles of the income distribution saw an average real-term change in their receipt of cash benefits by 4.6%, 3.3% and 41.6% respectively. Calculations are based on RPI deflation

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Pay for top bosses is growing 5 times faster than for ordinary workers

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Explaining the data

This research was carried out for the High Pay Centre by Incomes Data Services. You can see the full report at http://highpaycentre.org/pubs/new-high-pay-centre-report-performance-related-pay-is-nothing-of-the-sort

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Poorer Children are already disadvantaged before they even start school. Differences in income hinder children's progress from a very young age

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Explaining the data

Academics analysed a group of children at the age of 3 and 5, comparing their school readiness and their reading age. They compared the average score for each income group, ranging from the richest fifth to the poorest fifth, to the overall median. In each category, Children in the poorest fifth averaged a score that was well below the overall median, while the richest fifth were significantly above the median. So, for example, the average 3 year old born into the richest fifth of the population scored 63 (meaning a score higher than 63% of all children) for school readiness, while the average score in the poorest fifth was just 32. Obviously, the median for all 3 year olds was 50, below the richest, but above the poorest. This chart is taken from Professor John Hills’s book ‘Good Times, Bad Times: the welfare myth of them and us’ published by ‘Policy Press’ in November 2014.

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The myth of social mobility in the UK: the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor

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Explaining the data

This data is taken from a study by Miles Corak, Income inequality, equality of opportunity and intergenerational mobility, published in The Journal of Economic Perspectives, volume 27 number 3, pages 79-102 

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Poorest 80% of population have seen their share of incomes drop since 1979

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Explaining the data

This chart is taken from Professor John Hills’s book 'Changing Lives, Welfare State. Why we really are all in it together’ published by ‘Policy Press’ in November 2014 The figures are taken from earlier analyses by Jenkins SP and Cowell F 'Dwarfs and Giants in the 1980s: Trends in UK income distribution' (1993) and Adams N, Carr J, Collins J, Johnson G and Matejic P, Households Below Average Income: An analysis of the income distribution, 1994/95 to 2010/11(2012). 

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The poorest half of the UK population have less wealth than the richest 1 per cent

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Explaining the data

This data is from the Office for National Statistics ‘Wealth in Great Britain, Wave Three’ report covering the years 2010-12 (the most recent period for which data is available). The report can be found online at http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/was/wealth-in-great-britain-wave-3/2010-2012/index.html

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Poorest regions in the UK are poorer than anywhere in Northern Europe

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Explaining the data

This data was produced by Eurostat, the data agency of the European Union. They measured GDP per head in regions across the EU, taking into account the different prices in different regions. The full data is available from http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_PUBLIC/1-27022014-AP/EN/1-27022014-AP-EN.PDF. We have classed the countries listed above as ‘Northern Europe’ because they are our nearest geographical neighbours and are commonly considered to have similar levels of prosperity as the UK (unlike countries in Southern Europe or the former Soviet Bloc). As members of the EU, Eurostat provides comparable data for each of these countries.

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Most people think significant pay differentials unfair

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Explaining the data

This data was taken from polling carried out by ICM on behalf of the High Pay Centre. Though polling results depend on how the question is phrased, when asked if they agreed that “pay gaps in the UK are necessary to encourage people to work hard and take risks”, just 32% of respondents agreed, while 55% disagreed. Therefore it is clear that a majority of people think that the gap between those at the top and low and middle earners has grown too large. The results can be found at www.highpaycentre.org 

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Most households would be much better off in a more equal society

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Explaining the data

All figures for the share of the richest 1 per cent, plus the UK’s estimated total income, are taken from the World Top Incomes Database via http://topincomes.parisschoolofeconomics.eu.

Of course, if measures were introduced to reduce the share of income going to the richest 1% in the UK, then the £1 trillion total income might also change. But the fact that the share of incomes going to the richest people is much smaller in other modern, prosperous societies like Denmark and the Netherlands  suggests that inequality is not a necessary price of economic success. In fact, research from the International Monetary Fund suggests that inequality hinders economic growth (you can read their paper at http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/sdn/2014/sdn1402.pdf). The benefits of reducing the share of UK incomes going to the top 1% maybe worth even more than £2,500 per household.

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The poorest regions of the UK are the poorest in Northern Europe

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Explaining the data:

This data was produced by Eurostat, the data agency of the European Union. They measured GDP per head in regions across the EU, taking into account the different prices in different regions. The full data is available from http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_PUBLIC/1-27022014-AP/EN/1-27022014-AP-EN.PDF

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Incomes increased for the richest last year, but fell for everyone else

The richest fifth of the UK population saw their incomes increase by £940 in 2013. But incomes were down by £250 for the other 80% of the population... and by £381 for the poorest fifth.

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Explaining the data

This data compares the ‘equivalised disposable household income’ for 2011/12 and 2012/13. It was published by the Office for National Statistics as part of ‘the effects of UK tax and benefits on household income 2012/13 study.’ ONS have found that the recession did have a small effect on reducing inequality, but it now looks as though inequality maybe set to increase. The figures are available online via http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-333039 

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