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Inequality in Aotearoa

By / 8 April 2010

Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei has launched a series of blogs titled “Inequality in Aotearoa” which will be published throughout April and May.

She will cover “a wide range of issues from community life to obesity, violence to educational achievement, teenage pregnancy to life expectancy” with the aim to highlight how inequality in a society affects everyone, not just the poorest.

It’s easy to think about inequality as just being about poverty, and it’s true that the poorest people are more likely to suffer from obesity, become pregnant as teenagers, live for shorter, perform poorly in education, be incarcerated, be a victim of violence, abuse, live in substandard and cold homes, and so on. But actually, all of these things are worse, even for people in the middle and high income brackets, in a more unequal society.

Her posts are engaging and relevant at a time when we have been ranked the 6th worse OECD country in terms of income inequality in the UN’s most recent Human Development Report.

The first two posts of the series can be found here.

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