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Labour commits to same debt & surplus targets as National
The six key news items from Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate and poverty in the week to Saturday, May 17 were:
* Labour committed to the same Government debt and surplus targets as National.
* The Greens proposed an alternative budget with $88 billion of new wealth and income taxes to improve publicly-funded incomes, health and housing.
* The last major independent electricity retailer was shut and taken over by the most dominant of the big four gentailers that control an uncompetitive market.
* Stats NZ reported record-high emigration of young families at a rate of a…
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