The latest OECD report on income inequality is out, showing New Zealand as one of just six countries where inequality was stable or falling from 2007 to 2011. This doesn’t alter what we already knew, which is that nothing much changed here between the global financial crisis and the end of the current data we…

The combined issues of inequality and poverty have surged past traditional concerns about the state of the economy and unemployment to become the number one issue for New Zealanders, according to polling data from Roy Morgan that I’ve just crunched. As you can see from the graph, it’s been a huge rise over the last…