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Little targets National over growing inequality
The Labour Party has challenged the government to deliver a Budget this week that benefits middle New Zealand and stops the squeeze on working families.
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Linda Tirado - Down and Out in Utah and Washington DC
In her book Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America Linda Tirado writes eloquently of the millions of people in her home country – the US – who work hard, yet still struggle. She knows because she… Audio
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Funds cut from parents-as-teachers scheme
A programme that has helped tens of thousands of parents during its 25 years is to be scrapped.
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A radical approach to charity
GiveDirectly aims to help people living in extreme poverty in Kenya and Uganda by making unconditional cash transfers via mobile phone. Paul Brennan talks to Ian Bassin about this radical, but simple… Audio
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Living Wage gaining momentum in Nelson
Momentum is building in Nelson for a campaign to call employers to pay the Living Wage of just under $20 an hour.
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Toby & Toby... on the decile system and a schools funding shake-up
OPINION: Figuring out the decile system and whether it makes the grade can be trickier than Year 10 maths. Toby Morris and Toby Manhire do their homework.
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Better homeless data needed to drive better public policy decisions.
Guyon Espiner talks to Max Rashbrooke, who researches and writes on inequality and the founder of the Gimme Shelter campaign, James Crow. Audio
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State home tenant charged over meth use
A former Christchurch tenant has been ordered to pay nearly $20,000 after using methamphetamine in a state house.
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Hundreds tell WINZ they're homeless
Just over 400 people went to Work and Income saying they were homeless in March, Prime Minister John Key says. Audio
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'The last bastion of chauvinism' in New Zealand Sport
The New Zealand Rugby board has been in existence for 124 years and in all that time there has never been a woman on the board. Brent Impey is the chairman of New Zealand Rugby, and he's vowing to… Audio
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More women on public sector boards
Women now make up 43 percent of people on state sector boards and committees, a new record, the government says.
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Plea for budget to deliver on Auckland housing
The government can't continue to ignore the growing numbers of people forced to live in cars, shipping containers and garages, say social housing groups.
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Medical tourism 'mirrors colonial inequalities'
New Zealanders travelling to countries for cheap healthcare are further widening a two-tier system, an Otago University study says. Audio
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Key ends week deeply satisfied
OPINION: Overblown rhetoric on the Panama Papers from the Prime Minister's enemies has again made them look ridiculous, writes Matthew Hooton.
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Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami: freeing a refugee rapper
Kim Hill talks to Iranian filmmaker Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami who is presenting her feature-length documentary Sonita, about an Afghani refugee girl who wants to be a rapper, at the 11th International… Audio
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CEO gender imbalance 'gobsmacking'
There are now no women listed as CEOs in any of New Zealand's top 50 businesses, while the disparity between chief executives and workers' pay continues to grow. Audio
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CEO salaries soar, workers' remain stagnant
Data collated by the New Zealand Herald and published today shows the CEOs from New Zealand's largest listed companies had an average pay increase of 12 percent in 2015, compared with 3.2 percent for… Audio
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Call for women in rugby boardrooms
The chair of the NZRFU Brent Impey says he wants to see more women in the boardroom. Audio
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Toby & Toby on ... The Panama Paper chase
OPINION: Has there really been any impact on New Zealand's reputation from the Panama Paper chase? Toby Manhire and Toby Morris look at the evidence.
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Akld Council marked down for slow progress tackling inequality
Five years on from the country's biggest local body merger, the Auckland Council is being marked down for failing to tackle social inequality in the city. Auckland Correspondent Todd Niall has more. Audio
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Deep seated inequalities in Auckland super city
Failure to tackle social inequality in Auckland has been highlighted as a key problem following the city's local body amalgamation.
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Xu Zhiyuan - The New China
Artist Ai Wei Wei calls Xu Zhiyuan the most important Chinese intellectual of his generation. In Xu's book, Paper Tiger - Inside the Real China, he writes about the strangeness and complexity of… Audio
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Warren Lindberg - Maori Health Symposium
Warren Lindberg joins Wallace to talk about the challenges facing Maori in the health system today. Audio
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John Thwaites - Fixing the World
John Thwaites is chair of ClimateWorks Australia and the Monash Sustainability Institute. He is the former Deputy Premier (Labour) of Victoria, Australia and was in New Zealand this week to talk about… Audio
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Children's Books with Kate De Goldi: three Newbery winners
Kim Hill talks to Kate De Goldi about children's books Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson, Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson, and The War That Saved My Life by… Audio
