In signs of rising income inequality, India's richest 1% now hold a huge 58% of the country's total wealth -- higher t...

A boy born in the most deprived 10 per cent of Scotland would have a life expectancy of just 68. That is eight years younger than the natio...

New figures revealed men in the wealthiest areas live 11 years longer than those in the most deprived parts of the country. For women, the...

The gulf between the health of the affluent and the poor in Scotland is exposed in a new report which shows the divide is wid...

Statistics released by the Scottish Government show people from more deprived parts of Scotland are more likely to die from alcohol-related...

Figures obtained by the National Union of Students show older universities each typically recruit fewer than 100 students from deprived bac...

Life expectancy in Scotland is markedly lower compared to other European nations and the UK as a whole. But what are the reasons for this h...

Glasgow remains the most deprived city and local authority area in Scotland. Almost half of Glasgow’s residents - 285,000 people - reside ...

The Guardian columnist describes what is called " funemployment " Workshy, embracing unemployment as a lifestyle choice, sometime...

THE chasm between the health of Scotland's rich and poor was exposed yesterday with the release of new official statistics showing that ...

"Yet despite this significant progress, our ambitions still exceed our achievements and it is clear that we have some distance still to...

In a study Scotland’s wealthiest suburb has a life expectancy of 87.7 years, while a boy born in the poorest area of Glasgow can expect to d...

The Big Issue carries an article on Edinburgh's rich/poor divide .JK Rowling has written about the shock of first moving to a council e...

Goodness me , after all this time Labour has re-discovered that class counts . "...we know that inequality doesn't just come from y...

From the Guardian ; The top 10% of income earners get 27.3% of the cake, while the bottom 10% get just 2.6% Twenty years ago the average chi...

It is reported that the number of people in Scotland's poorest areas dying from heart disease has dropped , however, despite the drive t...

According to this BBC report , after 30 years of unprecedented economic growth, the British are richer, healthier - but no happier than in...

The Times reports that the International Olympic Committee’s demand for more than 3,000 chauffeur-driven cars for dignitaries, officials a...

What difference does 50 years make for the working class . Are we all better off . Well , it certainly appears that way . UK household incom...

And From the BBC The rapidly rising incomes of the richest 10% of the population are the major factor contributing to growing inequality in...