Every supermarket debate returns to the checkout total, and rightly so. Food is unavoidable, lower-income households spend a larger share of income on it,
Tag: Cost of living
New Zealand’s wage problem will not be fixed by productivity slogans
When wage growth is weak, households do not experience it as a macroeconomic trend. They experience it at the supermarket, the rent payment, the insurance
New Zealand’s baby question is becoming a cost-of-living question
When a couple says they cannot afford children, they are not only making a private family decision. They are giving the country a quiet economic signal. 1N