Inequality and poverty: A summary of the 2019 Household Incomes in New Zealand report
The Ministry of Social Development’s key annual report, ‘Household incomes in New Zealand: Trends in indicators of inequality and hardship 1982 to 2018’, by Bryan Perry, makes for depressing if not surprising reading. Economic inequality remains at the very high level the country was left with in the late 1990s following 15 years of market-based…