Income inequality hit record high before the recession started

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• Huge fall in building of new affordable homes
• 'High pay at the top corrosive to the British economy'
• Average incomes rising much less than inflation
• Welfare reform risks 133,000 unable to afford rent
• Pay gap grows between top and middle earners
• GLA publishes child poverty update
• Public education spending to fall at fastest rate since 1950s
• FTSE 100 directors' pay up by 50%
• LSE to monitor poverty and inequality under the Coalition
• Is London the hardest region for poor children?
• Housing costs risk piling pressure on Outer London services
• New London's Poverty Profile launched
• Decade of rising poverty predicted
• Government housing policies assessed
• Childcare costs causing debt and poverty
• Pay and rewards risen faster at the top
• Mixed results on employment retention
• '1 in 4 London children overcrowded'
• Public support for tackling pay inequality
• Living costs rising faster for families
• 'Single mothers hit hardest by welfare changes'
• Disabled people 'face additional debt difficulties'
• Will the Work Programme fail the most disadvantaged?
• Incomes grew in 2009-2010 but future looks gloomy
• Poor 'experience worse inflation'
• London's Latin American community low-paid and exploited
• Child Poverty Action Group issues legal challenge to Government
• Women still behind in London's economy
• Government consults on new child poverty approach
• IFS predicts rising poverty
• London's poor hit harder by tax and benefit changes
• New information on rough sleeping
• In-work poverty on the rise in London
• Recession impacts most on East and Outer London
• New data available on London's debt
• New report on lifting families out of poverty
• London's public sector exhibits lower standards of living
• Public funding cuts hit the poorest hardest
• City Parochial becomes Trust for London
• VAT rise will hit the poor hardest
• Mayor announces increase in Living Wage
• London the 'most unequal city in the West', says academic
• New National Minimum Wage rates announced
• 'Worklessness costs London £5bn a year'
• Bus fare rise hits low-paid Londoners
• London's children in deepest poverty
• JRF launches housing and neighbourhood website
• Poverty in Hammersmith
• Focus on London 2009 published
• London Child Poverty Awards
• Recession poverty risk for BME Women
• Government reviews impact of recession
• Londoners face debt crisis
• Child poverty duty to become law
• London Living Wage increases
• London's Poverty Profile welcomed
• London's Poverty Profile launched
• New research about Latin American community in London
• Income inequality hit record high before the recession started
• London's economic environment remains harsh, says GLA
• Government will miss 2010 child poverty target
• Unemployment up across all London boroughs