Talk by Danny Dorling at the National Pensioners convention in the Yorkshire region Sheffield Town Hall, June 29th 2010

1. 'Inequality in Britain and the Pensioners’ Danny Dorling National Pensioners convention in the Yorkshire region Sheffield Town Hall, June 29 th 2010 Featuring crossing outs and corrections, this piece sold for £776,500 ($1,202,500) Recently See this talk in full multimedia at http://sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/presentations/

2. A talk based around today’s news “ I read the news today oh boy About a lucky man who made the grade And though the news was rather sad Well I just had to laugh I saw the photograph He blew his mind out in a car He didn't notice that the lights had changed A crowd of people stood and stared They'd seen his face before Nobody was really sure If he was from the House of Lords” A Day in the Life (Lennon/McCartney) 1 June 1967

4. 2 “Warning on local council pensions” “ COUNCIL WORKERS ACROSS ENGLAND FACE HAVING TO RETIRE LATER OR PAY MORE INTO THEIR PENSION SCHEME, THE PUBLIC SPENDING WATCHDOG HAS WARNED. THE LIABILITIES OF THE £130BN LOCAL GOVERNMENT PENSIONS SCHEME (LGPS) WERE RISING AND ACTION WAS NEEDED, AN AUDIT COMMISSION REPORT SAID” We could afford to retire in the 1940s but not now – make we become poorer – or just much more unequal?

7. The number of young people in long-term unemployment has almost doubled in the last two years. The number of 16-to-24-year-olds out of work for six months or more has increased from 222,000 in summer 2008 to 412,000 in summer 2010. This is an increase of 85 per cent. There has also been a significant increase in the number of young people out of work for more than a year, from 114,000 to 211,000. Meanwhile

11. Income share of best-off 1% http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/injustice/

13. Inequality in mortality under age 65 http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/injustice/ NHS

14. The income distribution stretches up to the heavens Social Stratification in the United States Stephen J. Rose

15. Bringing people together requires the top to come down Social Stratification in the United States Stephen J. Rose

16. Allowing a few people to be rich is very expensive Social Stratification in the United States Stephen J. Rose

17. When incomes at the top last came down, incomes at the bottom came up – more to go around Social Stratification in the United States Stephen J. Rose

18. If you could see everyone’s income on the same page of a graph then society is more cohesive Social Stratification in the United States Stephen J. Rose

19. In the USA need any household live on less than $25,000 or more than $75,000? What about UK? Social Stratification in the United States - transformed

20. Thank you See this talk in full multimedia at http://sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/presentations/