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he public is to get a chance to admire art in private members' clubs, offices and expensive restaurants thanks to a project to open up hidden collections.

The Art14 fair, which starts next week, has secured public access to work at venues from the Dover Street Arts Club to the senior common room at the Royal College of Art.

The distinctive work on show at venues taking part in the Open Art events includes a giant sculpture made of 150,000 glass beads spanning nine storeys of the Wellcome Trust building in Euston.

A special breakfast will give an opportunity to see Martin Creed's takeover of Mayfair restaurant Sketch.

Organiser Caroline Roux said: "There's something rather compelling about work in private spaces that you can't normally see."

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Chance for enthusiasts to admire capital's hidden art

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he public is to get a chance to admire art in private members' clubs, offices and expensive restaurants thanks to a project to open up hidden collections. The Art14 fair, which starts next week, has secured public access to work at venues from the Dover Street Arts Club to the senior common room at the Royal College of Art.

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This is worth watching, it is educational and helps us understand other people's culture and society.

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Everyone should watch this programme on 40D. Is this what it means to be a chav??

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Relationship between economic success and inequality.

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Relationship between economic success and inequality.

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It is  not just Britain that faces class inequality. America also faces class inequality

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In Atlanta, Georgia, average income for the top 5percent of wealthiest residents ($280,000) in nearly 20 times that of the bottom 20percent (less than $15,000)

New York ranks sixth in income disparity with the wealthiest residents making 13 times as much as the bottom 20percent

The income gap has become a hot button issue in both national and local politics

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio made it a central part of his campaign with the 'tale of two cities'

The gap between the wealthy and the poor is most extreme in several of the United States' most prosperous and largest cities.

The economic divides in Atlanta, San Francisco, Washington, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles are significantly greater than the national average, according to a study released last week by the Brookings Institution, the Washington-based think tank.

It suggests that many sources of both economic growth and income inequality have co-existed near each other for the past 35 years.

These cities may struggle in the future to provide adequate public schooling, basic municipal services because of a narrow tax base and 'may fail to produce housing and neighborhoods accessible to middle-class workers and families,' the study said.

'There's something of a relationship between economic success and inequality,' said Alan Berube, a senior fellow at Brookings. 'These cities are home to some of the highest paying industries and jobs in the country.'

At the same time, Berube noted, many of these cities may inadvertently widen the gap between rich and poor because they have public housing and basic services that make them attractive to low-wage workers.

The findings come at a delicate moment for the country, still slogging through a weak recovery from the Great Recession. Much of the nation's job growth has been concentrated in lower-wage careers. Few Americans have enjoyed pay raises.

President Barack Obama is pushing for a higher minimum wage. Protesters in San Francisco have tried to block a private bus that shuttles Google employees from gentrifying neighborhoods to their offices in Silicon Valley.

Many wealthy Americans, from venture capitalist Tom Perkins to real estate billionaire Sam Zell, argue that the nation has tipped toward class warfare.

Incomes for the top 5 percent of earners in Atlanta averaged $279,827 in 2012. That's almost 19 times more than what the bottom 20 percent of that city's population earned.

This ratio is more than double the nationwide average for this measure of income inequality. The top 5 percent of earners across the country have incomes 9.1 times greater than the bottom quintile.

Major chasms also appeared in the tech hub of San Francisco, the financial center of New York, the seat of the federal government in Washington and the home of the entertainment industry in Los Angeles.

'In San Francisco, skyrocketing housing costs may increasingly preclude low-income residents from living in the city altogether,' the study said.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said in an editorial published last week that 'working families cannot support themselves on the (city's) current minimum wage of $10.74 per hour' - already $3.49 above the federal minimum and 64 cents more than Obama's proposed increase. Lee has also announced plans to build and restore 10,000 homes for low and moderate-income families by 2020.

Not all tech hubs have witnessed rising inequality.

Seattle, where Amazon and Microsoft are based, saw its income disparity decline since 2007. So did Denver. Austin, Texas, experienced a mild uptick.

'Both the tech boom and energy boom are inequality-reducing,' said Michael Mandel, chief economic strategist at the Progressive Policy Institute in Washington. 'Tech introduces a path to good jobs.'

The Brookings study also found that inequality increased across cities even though incomes often fell for wealthy households between the start of the recession in 2007 and 2012.

During that five-year period, average incomes for the top 5 percent in Jacksonville, Florida, tumbled $18,999 to $152,329. But the bottom 20 percent living in Jacksonville lost a greater share of their incomes over that period, so the level of inequality increased.

Significant gaps also exist in Miami and Baltimore. But that's largely because their poorest residents there earn so little. The lowest quintile of Miami residents earned just $10,348 in 2012, about half the national average for that group.

Of the nation's 50 biggest cities, just 18 experienced greater income inequality since the recession that was statistically significant. That was due primarily to falling incomes for the poorest residents. This occurred in places that suffered from the burst of the housing bubble - such as Tucson, Arizona, and Albuquerque, New Mexico - and Midwestern cities still reeling from the collapse of manufacturing such as Cleveland, Ohio; Indianapolis, Indiana; and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Not all the 50 largest cities are bastions of inequality. Some Western and Sun Belt cities with smaller downtowns had a noticeably smaller divide than the national average. These cities such as Mesa, Arizona, and Arlington, Texas, are essentially 'overgrown suburbs,' the study said. They tend to attract neither the highest-paying jobs nor the extreme poverty of the older cities.

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Wealth gap is widest in rich cities like Atlanta, San Fancisco and NYC

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In Atlanta, Georgia, average income for the top 5percent of wealthiest residents ($280,000) in nearly 20 times that of the bottom 20percent (less than $15,000) New York ranks sixth in income disparity with the wealthiest residents making 13 times as much as the bottom 20percent The income gap has become

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This clip shows how the endurance of Inequality still exists in Britain.. The government promises to help those in low socio economic position but once in power the richer become richer and the gap between them and the poor becomes bigger. They break their promises. Although functionalist like Davis and Moore would argue that inequality is a good thing in away because i legitimate bi- product of capitalism.

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Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, has waded into the debate about the shape of Labour-Liberal Democrat relations after the next general election, insisting he wants to govern alone and saying he will not let Nick Clegg's party off the hook for abandoning the poor in preference for a place in the coalition.

This week Clegg claimed Labour had changed in its approach to coalitions, but since then the Lib Dem leader has hit a wall of Labour abuse, including a promise to pour resources into engineering his personal defeat as MP in Sheffield Hallam in the 2015 general election.

In an interview last month, Balls said he completely understood why Clegg had gone into coalition and said Clegg's continued presence as leader of the Lib Dems would not be a barrier to a coalition.

But in a more recent interview - with Progress magazine - Balls again said he had no personal animosity towards Clegg but changed the emphasis, saying: "I think that what was described by some as a 'rapprochement' was my one and only conversation with Nick Clegg in the last 18 months. It was brief, unexpected, unplanned, spontaneous and unorthodox."

He was fiercely critical of the Lib Dems' record in the coalition government. He said: "I look at what the Liberal Democrats have done the last two or three years - these guys have not restrained the Conservatives; they have in many ways amplified and encouraged the Conservatives in things that they've done.

"None of us want to be in coalition with the Liberal Democrats, partly because it's hard to know what's more unpopular at the moment - the Liberal Democrats or the idea of a coalition government."

He said he would not let the Lib Dems off the hook for the relish with which they had made spending cuts. "It's one thing to break your promises in a manifesto to get into power, it's another to do that on the backs of the poor and the most disadvantaged. That's what they did and I don't think people are going to forget that."

In reality Labour's decision on whether to go into coalition or form a minority government if it fails to win a working majority will largely depend on the precise parliamentary arithmetic after the election. But there is a strong Labour view that a rapprochement with Nick Clegg now would only slow the process of disillusioned Liberal Democrats switching to Labour.

Balls said the tough approach to public spending would continue if Labour was elected. "It's really important that people in the Labour movement and more widely in the country know that we are going to balance the books, we are going to get the national debt falling, and I've said that I want to get the budget back in current balance before the end of the parliament and as soon as we can."

He said Labour would be "cutting public spending in the next parliament - that is very different from past Labour governments coming to power".

He would target winter fuel allowance for rich pensioners, but would not touch the free bus pass or TV allowance, he said. "We've got to show every day that ... we are the people that will make the sums add up, that we will make the tough decisions."

Balls said business recognised the purpose behind Labour proposals to shake up the energy and banking sectors, but revealed his reluctance for the party to tip over into being seen as anti-business. "For Labour to sort of lurch to a retro period of anti-business policy would take us back very many decades, and Ed Miliband and I are absolutely clear, with Chuka Umunna [the shadow business secretary], that we're not going to do that."
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Labour won't forget Lib Dems' broken promises, says Ed Balls

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Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, has waded into the debate about the shape of Labour-Liberal Democrat relations after the next general election, insisting he wants to govern alone and saying he will not let Nick Clegg's party off the hook for abandoning the poor in preference for a place in the coalition.

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This is a perfect example of social mobility, it shows how Jade Goody was able to move from having no money to becoming a millionaire.

This is a good example to explain what most commenter’s mean by the British society is open and meritocratic. Jade showed that her success was based on her individual ability and achievement.

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Big Brother - Remembering Jade Goody @BigBro789 bigbro789.blogspot.com

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This clip by Obama is one of the examples of how one can define class. He highlights the old boy network. This is basically what Gidden 2001 meant when he explained that Class is grouping people who share common economic resources and this influences the life style they lead.Therefore this clip shows that Obama and McCain share similar economic resources however in the clip, he highlights that even if, him and McCain associate with the same people, McCain’s network and connection is not as strong as his hence why he should be president.

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Student Reporter Damon Weaver Interviews

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Barack Obama on McCain's 'old boy network'

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Barack Obama on McCain's 'old boy network'

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