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Bryce Edwards: Will the government take the poverty crisis seriously?


Dr Bryce Edwards
Political Roundup - This week s Budget is a chance for the Labour government to take the crisis of poverty and inequality seriously. They can do this by delivering something serious or even transformational for those suffering at the bottom of the heap in New Zealand. In particular, a big increase in core benefit rates would be the most effective way they could tackle the worsening problem.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Finance Minister Grant Robertson at the back.
Photo: RNZ/Samuel Rillstone
Of course, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has already faced campaigns to increase benefits and firmly said no to these as recently as December - see: The Left s challenge to Labour s inaction on poverty and inequality. ....

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