Inequality: A New Zealand Crisis
A timely and useful read, a book with heart designed to engage the mind. – Jolisa Gracewood
The divide between New Zealand’s poorest and wealthiest inhabitants has widened alarmingly over recent decades. Inequality: A New Zealand Crisis charts this troubling phenomenon, explores the damage it creates, and suggests how it could be solved.
Thanks to its greatly increased levels of economic inequality, New Zealand society is being reshaped, stretching to accommodate new distance between those who ‘have’ and those who ‘have not’. Income inequality has become a crisis that affects everyone.
This work, edited by Max Rashbrooke, was originally published in 2013 and republished, with updates, in 2018. A diverse gathering of New Zealand scholars, journalists, researchers, business leaders, workers, students and parents share its pages. Their voices speak to the complex shape of income inequality and its diverse effects on communities.