The issue of inequality dominated national conversations in the past year, as fears of a widening income divide and declining social mobility became a growing concern.
From coffee shop chatter to grassroots dialogues, in parliamentary speeches and on the pages of a bestselling book and beyond, the problem of an uneven playing field and the challenge of how best to help level it was discussed at length.
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