This week The New Zealand Initiative published a report The Inequality Paradox: Why inequality matters very though it has barely changed. It follows an earlier report this year Poorly Understood: The state of poverty in New Zealand.
The report is a contribution to public debate. We will contribute further, in part through this blogsite. This is the first contribution. It sets the scene by listing 21 major messages and arguments from our research. They are numbered so as to make it easier to locate future contributions to our main messages.
Putting the two reports together, here are some of the main conclusions from this research. The references in parenthesis are to the Inequality Paradox report, unless otherwise stated.)
- Increased housing costs are hitting those on low incomes hardest, and to a very severe degree. (Figure 28.) Getting more houses built is a critical issue, regardless of economic inequality.
- There…
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