Stephanie Rodgers

Feminist, leftie, green māmā from Te Whanganui-a-Tara

Category: Economy

  • (Repost) The end of the inequality debate?

    Originally posted at On The Left. Inequality has become a central political issue in New Zealand and around the world. But there’s always been some argument, from the right, that…

  • Hiding the government’s failure on poverty

    Three weeks ago I snarked John Key’s sudden desire to take serious action on child poverty. Now, thanks to Radio New Zealand, we know that not only has Treasury been…

  • Alternative numbers

    In my post yesterday I said: … there’s something obscene about the way the economic story gets framed: the figures on a page, the points on an index, the number of dollars…

  • Numbers are meaningless when families are living in cars

    Housing affordability was an issue in the election – but the discussion was derailed by arguments about the intricacies of capital gains tax and exactly how many hundreds of thousands of…

  • NZ Inc: Frightening the invisible horses of the market

    Today’s anonymous Herald editorial is scathing of Labour’s NZ Inc policy, which defies all logic and reason by assuming that there are better ways to build our economy than flogging…