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Inequality means watching people close to you … persistently struggling … to keep their households afloat, to do their best for their children and to make good decisions by weighing up the constrained range of choices on offer.Karlo Mila
The sharp increase in income concentration at the top of national income distributions over recent decades should have prompted a … public debate about the question: ‘When are the rich too rich?’Robert Wade
While equality is highly valued, there is huge disagreement about why equality matters and what precisely should be equalised.Jonathan Boston
The future, in one sense, is now. It is not an abstract, theoretical or even visionary picture of what the world may be like in fifty years or a hundred years. It is, rather, the potential we hold now, as a society.Linda Tuhiwai Smith

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Understanding inequality

Inequality matters because people’s income plays a huge part in determining what kind of life they can lead. Different incomes allow very different life chances. And an uneven distribution of incomes creates problems for us all. So just how wide are income gaps in New Zealand?

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Key points from the 2015 Household Incomes Report

Opinion by Max Rashbrooke on August 17, 2015

This document summarises the key points on inequality and poverty from the 2015 Household Incomes Report, published by the Ministry for Social Development. Inequality On most measures, income inequality is either at the highest level it has been since records began in 1982, or is very close to that level. It has also risen sharply…

Why inequality just won’t go away for this government

Opinion by Max Rashbrooke on July 30, 2015

Did the small child poverty package in May’s Budget makes the issue go away for National? Not in the slightest, according to the polling shown in the graph below. Concerns about poverty and inequality, which had already skyrocketed since 2010, have only increased in recent months – and the last poll was taken in June,…

Drinks Poured into the Pool: Beyonce, George Michael and Inequality

Opinion by Max Rashbrooke on May 25, 2015

At the end of last week, there was a brief flare of outrage about a shot from Beyonce’s new video (available only on Tidal), in which she apparently pours a bottle of champagne worth thousands of dollars into a swimming pool. As someone observed on Twitter, when there are people starving and homeless, this isn’t…

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