Pay gap widens as UK bosses get 130 times average worker’s salary
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Hundreds of experts warn the world must prepare now for AI’s impact
More than 200 economists and AI researchers call on leaders to immediately prepare for sweeping economic disruption.
UK children will be one of unhealthiest generations in decades, doctors say
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US education faces ‘a crisis for low-wealth students’
Andre Perry tells This is America that going to college still pays, but low-wealth students carry most of the debt.
England facing children’s mental health ‘crisis’ as referrals hit 1m
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‘We feel like the peasants’: women and low-income families bear brunt of heatwave
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Post-apartheid South Africa: 50 years after Soweto riots, what has changed?
Black students braved bullets to protest the discriminatory apartheid-era education policies.
Labour MPs doubt EHRC guidance on court’s biological sex ruling is workable
The EHRC guidance raises issues affecting trans people’s access places such as hospital wards, changing rooms and public toilets. Photograph:…
Elon Musk poised to make history as world’s first trillionaire
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We economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a doomed strategy – there is a better way | Olivier De Schutter and others
Illustration: Eleanor Shakespeare/The GuardianView image in fullscreen Illustration: Eleanor Shakespeare/The Guardian We economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a…