Resources | Closing The Gap

Living Wage Aotearoa NZ

"The Living Wage is different from the minimum wage. It is defined as 'the income necessary to provide workers and their families with the basic necessities of life. A living wage enables workers to live with dignity and to participate as active citizens in society."

Read more about this important movement here, and by clicking on the image.

Tax Talk in a Nutshell

A resource from Better Taxes for a Better Future - Fair Tax Coalition with facts about tax and ideas on how to have 'that' tax conversation with friends, family and colleagues

Read it here

Masterclass on Inequality

Watch this Masterclass from Robert Reich, former United States Secretary of Labour, Professor at UC Berkeley, and campaigner against inequality.

Is some inequality both inevitable and necessary? At what point, if ever, does it become a problem? What’s the difference between income and wealth inequality, and which is more important? How do income and wealth inequalities overlap with race and gender? And the real puzzle: why did these inequalities begin to widen so dramatically starting in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and continue widening since then?

Oxfam Briefing Paper - January 2023.

Survival of the Richest: How we must tax the super-rich now to fight inequality.

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