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'Those spending cuts will go into the bone'
Mōrena. Long stories short; here’s my top six things to note in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate and poverty on Friday, August 23:
* Medical specialists have called for an independent inquiry into health funding, warning $1.4 billion of cuts by Health NZ commissioner Lester Levy will cut into the bone of a health service underfunded for decades.
* New research shows elderly poverty now rising in New Zealand at the fastest rate in the world as two decades of falling home ownership rates drive up housing costs much higher than NZ Superannuation was designed for.
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