John MacDonald: I'm paying attention to BusinessNZ, I hope you are too
I hope people are sitting-up and paying attention to what BusinessNZ is saying today.
Especially the people who have their heads in the sand about our ability as a country to keep paying for things like healthcare and pensions.
Because, as BusinessNZ puts it, we don’t have enough people to keep on doing that and we need a lot more people.
As one headline today says, New Zealand needs 10 million people to stay afloat.
BusinessNZ says we need twice as many people just to keep the lights on. For several reasons.
For starters, in 20 years’ time we’ll have a labour shortage of…
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