• Posts Tagged ‘inequality’

    A chance to hear from a visiting child poverty expert

    by  • October 18, 2012 • Articles, News • 0 Comments

    Greg Duncan – an American academic with three decades’ experience researching poverty, welfare dependency and childhood development – will be giving several public lectures in Wellington next month about the long-term damage caused by child poverty. Duncan, a distinguished professor from the University of California, Irvine, has spent his career examining the long-term impacts...

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    Inequality – what’s the solution?

    by  • September 21, 2012 • Comment • 4 Comments

    Our first talk on inequality at Te Papa, on September 13, was a huge success: a great crowd of well over 200 people, and a fantastic array of speakers setting out all the reasons – personal, social, and economic – why we should worry about the widening divide. Now, we’re gearing up for the...

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