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Sarah Kerr

@wealtherty.bsky.social
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Research Fellow at LSE International Inequalities Institute. Materialist feminist. Writes about wealth, poverty and inequality. Books: Wealth, Poverty & Enduring Inequality: Let's talk wealtherty.

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Fairness Foundation @fairness.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Wealth, power and fairness: in conversation with @mikebrewerecon.bsky.social - the @resolutionfoundation.org Deputy Chief Executive on why the absolute size of wealth gaps matters as much as the relative ones, what extreme wealth does to power, and much more...
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Wealth, power and fairness: in conversation with Mike Brewer
The Resolution Foundation's Deputy Chief Executive on why the absolute size of wealth gaps matters as much as the relative ones, what extreme wealth does to power, and much more...
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Sacha Hilhorst @sachahilhorst.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Me, in the Guardian today, on Reform voters and sympathisers in England's post-industrial towns www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Snippet from a Guardian article, which reads: "This is the political paradox of England’s post-industrial towns. While it is true that Reform is building its base in former mining and manufacturing areas, the local people who can be won over to progressive politics will only be convinced by being less like Reform, not more. Winning in post-industrial England requires connecting with its popular radicalism.

“A lot of working-class people, they don’t want a lot,” says Martin, the former miner. “They want enough to get by and to have nicer things in life. To go on holiday and to have good food and things like that. They are not bothered about yachts and aeroplanes – not in my eyes, anyway. They are just happy enough to get through in life with a job, a secure job to pay the mortgage and to look after their family … At the end of the day, that is what I think. When you have got peace of mind with that, you can’t beat it.”"
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Tax Justice UK @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Secrecy is essential to the crimes of the elite. It's what makes offshore tax havens so effective for dodging taxes, hiding dirty money & funding crime. Public registers would allow tax authorities, police & journalists follow the money & expose corruption. tinyurl.com/mry3htz6
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EXPOSE TAX HAVEN SECRETS
No more secrets, no more safe havens for dirty money.
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Policy Press @policypress.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Get 50% off the paperback or eBook of these titles with code DEBTS.🌟🛒 📻 Yesterday on BBC Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed, Ryan Davey and Sarah Kerr explored the real-world impacts of debt and wealth inequality. 🎧 Listen: ow.ly/nHmY50YstC6 📚 Browse: ow.ly/PxUN50YstC5
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Sarah Kerr @wealtherty.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
It was a pleasure and a privilege to speak to Laurie Taylor on BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed about my work on wealth @uomphilosophy.bsky.social and @lseinequalities.bsky.social and great to share the experience with Ryan Davey talking about debt www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Thinking Allowed - Debt and Wealth Inequality - BBC Sounds
Living with debt - and has inequality become ingrained? Laurie Taylor hears new research.
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Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
👉 Stories about economic change are never neutral. They make politics. In my new article in Sociological Theory @sociologicaltheory.bsky.social, I show how narratives about economic disruption become a source of legitimacy: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Sarah Kerr @wealtherty.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Brilliant @cmmonwealth.bsky.social thread on the public wealth give-away that was 'right to buy'. Love the idea of right to buy back. 🔥 #publicwealth
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Tax Justice UK @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
"Instead of tinkering around the edges, with a wealth tax the government could win the argument on fairness – and finally start to reverse toxic wealth inequality in this country." Your weekend reading, from our Executive Director @faizashaheen.bsky.social! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Rachel Reeves needs to find cash fast. A wealth tax really is her only viable option | Faiza Shaheen
The alternatives for the UK chancellor are either unworkable or will lose Labour votes, so here’s what she should try, says Faiza Shaheen of Tax Justice UK
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Sacha Hilhorst @sachahilhorst.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
I've been slow to share this because in all honesty I was a little bit hungover on Saturday, but I wrote the New Statesman's weekend essay this week, on why England's ex-mining areas have become especially disenchanted with politics: www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...
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Women's Budget Group @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Listen to @ignaciapinto.bsky.social, our Senior Research and Policy Officer and author of the report, explain why we must tackle wealth inequality - and the options the Government has for taxing wealth.
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Hannah Elias @hannahelias.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Immigrants aren’t the problem. Othering immigrants is a deliberate strategy to encourage people to hate each other rather than examine what severe wealth inequality is doing to our societies. Image from #SolidaritywithLA poster at US embassy bus stop in London.
#solidaritywithLA protest poster at US Embassy bus stop in London reads: ‘they blame immigrants so you don’t blame billionaires.’
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Sarah Kerr @wealtherty.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
👉 Our new @jrf-uk.bsky.social and @lseinequalities.bsky.social report finds that foregrounding the unfair political influence that extreme wealth can buy in narratives about wealth inequality increases support for higher taxes on the rich. With @michaelvaughan.bsky.social and Annalena Oppel.
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Sarah Kerr @wealtherty.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Great @lseinequalities.bsky.social post from @sachahilhorst.bsky.social & Insa Koch on the new class politics: “the political & analytical challenge ahead lies in recuperating the radical potential implied in corruption talk for a solidarity across ethnic, racial, gendered and generational lines.”
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Women's Budget Group @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
We've written to Pat McFadden welcoming the review of the ONS but also to express our concerns about plans to cut back work in areas like wellbeing & living standards to focus on core economic stats. Data on employment and growth are important but there's more to our economy - including unpaid care.
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Letter to the Government about the independent review of the Office for National Statistics (ONS)
We welcome the independent review into the data collected and published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). We are writing to the Government and the UK Statistics Authority to ask that the te...
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Women's Budget Group @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Let's talk about tax! After 2 weeks of events organised by member states, NGOs, UN agencies & other multilateral institutions, listening to different voices from all over the world, WBG's Viktoria Szczypior shares her key take away from the 69th session of the Commission on the Status of Women.
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Women's Budget Group @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
New blog from Professor Susan Himmelweit and our Senior Research and Policy Officer, @ignaciapinto.bsky.social “Tax isn’t a burden—it’s how we build a fairer, more caring society.” Why we need progressive reform to tackle gender inequality. Read more: www.tax.org.uk/guest-blog-t...
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Guest blog - Tax is not a burden the view from the Women's Budget Group | Chartered Institute of Taxation
In this guest blog, Professor Susan Himmelweit and Ignacia Pinto, Senior Research and Policy Officer at the Women’s Budget Group, discuss the importance of progressive taxation in tackling gender ineq...
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New Economics Foundation @neweconomics.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🚨The chancellor's spring statement has reinforced the austerity doom loop the country is stuck in. Only by replacing the fiscal rules can we get out of this cycle of austerity and economic decline.
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Sarah Kerr @wealtherty.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
🙄 What does the persistent lack of good gender-sensitive data say about how much women matter in policy? 👉 Agnotology lit talks about ignorance as the effect of decisions made to take knowledge in some directions *and not in others*. We count what matters, right?
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Sarah Kerr @wealtherty.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
📣 Great opportunity to work with an organisation that is fleet, informed, puts out loads of amazing content and has a team you'd be mad not to want to work with. Looking forward to meeting the eventual role holder...
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Sarah Kerr @wealtherty.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
📣 Are you presenting a paper at the Social Policy Association conference this year? Does it have a tax dimension? If so - join our symposium! More detail here: www.linkedin.com/posts/sarah-...
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Sarah Kerr on LinkedIn: Social Policy Association and East Asian Social Policy Research Network -…
📣 Are you presenting a paper at the Social Policy Association (SPA) Conference this year? 📣 📣 Does your paper have a tax dimension? 📣 📣 Would you like…
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Sarah Kerr @wealtherty.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
📣 Out today - a new article with @michaelvaughan.bsky.social on visual representations of wealth inequality, by UK news media and civil society orgs journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Birgan Gokmenoglu @birgangokmenoglu.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
🧵Happy to announce our Special Issue on the #Political and #Transformative Uses of #Time is out! Coedited by me & E Colin Ruggero. Many thanks to all our contributors and to @timeandsociety.bsky.social. Hope it will be useful for those thinking time politically. journals.sagepub.com/toc/tasa/34/1
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Sarah Kerr @wealtherty.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
📣 Why should extreme wealth be at the heart of conversations about poverty, and social and economic justice? Join me & @mikesavagelse.bsky.social, Armine Ishkanian, @jrf-uk.bsky.social Frank Soodeen & Rajiv Prabhakar to discuss ideas in my new book. Sign up here: www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...
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Wealth, poverty and enduring inequality: let's talk wealtherty
Public event at LSE | Sarah Kerr, Armine Ishkanian, Rajiv Prabhakar, Frank Soodeen | Weds 19 February, 6.00 to 7.30pm
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Sarah Kerr @wealtherty.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
"Child poverty cannot be separated from women's poverty." Thank you @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social. We won't #EndChildPoverty if we don't also #EndWomen'sPoverty.
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Sarah Kerr @wealtherty.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
🔥 Seeing these two chat about inequality is a *total* treat. And there's a whole mini-series! 🤓 🙏
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Sarah Kerr @wealtherty.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Great thread from the consistently brilliant @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social here drawing out the gendered nature of housing poverty: 52% of housing support claimants with a shortfall between rent and housing benefit are single women v 18% single men. 66% of those women have dependent children.
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Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf-uk.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
4.3 million children are in poverty UK govt won’t see progress on child poverty by 2029 even with high economic growth 📢 Our analysis shows under our central scenario only Scotland will see child poverty rates fall by 2029 in part due to social security policies 1/5
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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
What is the historical relationship between wealth & ethnic background in the UK? By matching surnames to likely ethnic groups, Prof Neil Cummins uncovers five surprising facts about the evolution of ethnic wealth gaps since the 1850s #LSEInequalitiesBlog
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Ethnic wealth inequality in England: Surprising shifts from 1858 to today
What is the historical relationship between wealth and ethnic background in the UK? Until now, there has been little empirical work in this area. But by matching surnames to likely ethnic groups,&n…
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Sarah Kerr @wealtherty.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
🔥 Love this new #TaxTheSuperrich DIY sheet from @taxjusticenet.bsky.social. Concise and accessible framing which communicates lots of information about tax and the economy per se, AND makes a compelling case for taxing those who can most afford it to deliver fairness for all. Perfection! 💪
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Runnymede Trust @runnymedetrust.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
📣 WE'RE HIRING! 📣 📚 We're looking for a Head of Research to lead the research team and portfolio of the UK's leading racial justice think tank ⏳ Deadline, Thursday 6th February (9am) Apply here 👉 ow.ly/VNZw50UKgnO
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Women's Budget Group @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
This is welcome news. Redirecting focus from imprisoning women to exploring alternatives marks an important shift. Women’s centres achieve better outcomes and are more cost-effective, but they must be adequately funded to succeed. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Prisons minister aims to close one women’s jail in England and Wales
Exclusive: Timpson says government plans to reverse rise in female inmates and use alternative forms of punishment
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John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Polling by Prof Bobby Duffy at KCL Policy Inst to be published this week tracks opinion changes over 60 years www.independent.co.uk/voices/tacti...
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Sarah Kerr @wealtherty.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I'll be launching my new(ish!) @policypress.bsky.social book on Wednesday 19th February @lseinequalities.bsky.social and discussing ideas in it with the brilliant Armine Ishkanian, Rajiv Prabhakar and @mikesavagelse.bsky.social. Hope to see some of you there!: www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...
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Wealth, poverty and enduring inequality: let's talk wealtherty
Public event at LSE | Sarah Kerr, Armine Ishkanian, Rajiv Prabhakar, Mike Savage | Weds 19 February, 6.00 to 7.30pm
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
That is some graph on bus usage outside London after deregulation on.ft.com/49PfLlV
Bus usage outside London has fallen since the market was deregulated, while London bus usage has grown
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Sarah Kerr @wealtherty.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
It was a pleasure to talk to @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social about ideas in my book on wealth inequality. See below for in effect what is a digested read of the book itself!
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Sarah Kerr @wealtherty.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
@socialpolicyuk.bsky.social Tax & Social Policy Group conference: Wealth Inequality, Tax & Social Policy @LSE Jan 16 2025. Speakers: @mikesavagelse.bsky.social, Rajiv Prabhakar @openuniversity.bsky.social.
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Wealth Inequality, Tax & Social Policy
The SPA's Tax and Social Policy Group is holding a conference on Wealth Inequality, Tax & Social Policy on 16/1/25 from 10:30-3:45pm
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