NBCCWN 10'11'09

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NBCCWN10.11.09
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30 October 2008
Equality through Economics
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Equality through Economics
25/09/07
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• Slavery and colonialism have built modern Britain
• BME communities called in again after the war to
  rebuild Britain
• 40 of all doctors, dentists and nurses in London
  are Black or Minority Ethnic
• Olympic 2012 winning bid gold medals 9/14
  since 1988
• Greatest human rights and civil rights leaders
• Mastermind 2005 - Shaun Wallace
• The Apprentice 2005 - Tim Campbell
• X factor - Leona Lewis, Alexandra Burke.........
• BGT Diversity
• Big Brother Shilpa Shetty,
• Most widely eaten food in the UK is curry
• Music
• Fashion
• .., to be continued..,

25/09/07
Equality through Economics
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• Black and Asian consumers earn up to 156
  billion after tax income. Young men being the
  bigger consumers and spending 32 billion every
  year
• In certain sectors BME people tend to spend more
  per head than the national average, for example,
  Black and Asian consumers spend 44 more on
  clothing per month than White consumers.

Equality through Economics
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• 45,000 repossessions this year compared to 8,000
  4 yrs ago
• Widespread mal-practice in UK sub-prime mortgage
  lending
• Economists estimate that every 1 below trend
  translates into job losses of 200,000
• Bailing out the banks but whos looking after
  the people losing homes?

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• 12 of the total child population - BME, they are
  disproportionately more likely to be poor.
• African (56),
• Pakistani (60) and
• Bangladeshi (72) origin,
• compared with 25 for white children.

Equality through Economics
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• 15 percentage points
• 1.3 points lower than the level in 1987
• 25/30 years to eliminate (NEP and National Audit
  Office report)
• Factors Human Capital, Geography, Discrimination
  

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Among those in working families, around 60 of
Bangladeshis, 40 of Pakistanis and 30 of Black
Africans are in low income.  These rates are much
higher than the 10-15 for White British, White
other and Indians
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GREEN PAPER

• Individuals meet their own costs.
• A partnership approach
• An insurance model
• A comprehensive system, perhaps better referred
  to as a compulsory insurance model
• A tax-funded system, which would put adult social
  care on NHS-like financial footings.

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EIA

• It is commonly acknowledged that women, older
  people and people from some BME ethnic groups
  (such as Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities)
  are more likely to be carers.
• In terms of other specific equality strands
  vulnerability to poverty, older women, black and
  minority ethnic (BME) older people and older
  pensioners are found to be particularly vulnerable

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JRF

• There is no realistic prospect of a big bang
  solution, akin to creating an NHS-like system
  with free social care at the point of delivery
• It looks as if there will have to be an element
  of compulsion, involving individuals making
  contributions to an insurance fund.
• The idea of giving individuals their own budgets,
  to cover at least some of their social care
  needs, has gained rapidly in popularity in the
  last few years.

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JRF

• Not enough detailed costings
• No clear distributive principle
• fairness is still ambiguous and seems to be
  defined more by efficiency
• Amartya Sen - a much broader way of thinking
  about achieving equity and fairness. Money
  certainly matters, but it is a means to a broader
  social end.

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Three Models of Fairness

• Utilitarianism - any given action should be
  judged on the basis of its contribution to the
  overall utility of a population
• Rawls difference principle -the ways in which
  any new resources are distributed across a
  society are justified if the distribution helps
  to improve the circumstances of the least
  well-off person in that society.
• Sen Capabilities ensuring that people on lower
  incomes can participate fully in society

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We have work to do

• Only 20 believe that poverty is a result of
  social injustice
• 34 believe it is an inevitable part of life
• 27 - think laziness
• 10 - luck
• JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION

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EQUANOMICS UK

• Working for race equality via economic justice
• Social mobility is dependent on economic mobility