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Wed 05 May 2008Political class defiantly ignores massive inequality

Every year, some 5,400 people die prematurely in Ireland because of inequality, writes VINCENT BROWNE.

POLITICS IS now essentially about jobs. Jobs for the boys and girls. Brian Cowen, apparently, is keen that the boys and girls who get the plum jobs do a good job, in so far as they can, but it is still about jobs. This is now, unconsciously, part of our political culture. It is in large part what the media focus on politics is about.

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