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Bryce Edwards, Democracy Project, 27 August 2020 https://democracyproject.nz/ Inequality and poverty look to be the forgotten issues of the election campaign, with not much more than lip-service being paid to them on the campaign trail. Yet decisions are currently being made that appe

An obscene 12 percent pay jump for already overpaid CEOs last year reveals a willful ignorance from much of corporate New Zealand to the on-going harm inequality is causing the very society they live in, said Peter Malcolm, spokesperson for the income equality project Closing the Gap.

Closing the Gap recently got together with SocialLink Tauranga to produce the following series of videos to raise awareness of inequality. Inequality described The Inequality Song by Levi Williams   Robyn Malcolm reads a letter from a solo mum   On the Street: Discussing hom

People have taken to noting that New Zealand’s level inequality hasn’t changed much in the last 15 years. And it’s true, up to a point. But it leaves out a couple of things. First, it conveniently omits most of that period between the mid-1980s and the early 2000s, w