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The cost of being: A full-time office worker with an array of side hustles

The Cost of Being

A large red circle representing workers overlaps a small dark blue edge representing unions. A key shows blue for unions and red for workers, highlighting the large difference in size. The background is light purple.

Unions are made of workers

The cost of being: A regional journalist who’s ‘carefree in the streets, anxious in the sheets’

The Cost of Being

A news headline about inflation rising to 3 percent is shown above a jubilant basketball player celebrating, surrounded by confetti, with the caption "ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE" at the bottom.

Economic miracle? We have both high inflation and shite growth

Teachers, nurses and other unionised public sector workers are all striking on October 23

Brace for impact: here comes the mega strike

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The cost of being: A young lawyer saving heaps through house-sitting

The Cost of Being

a picture of a road that is flooded with some coins and graph paper

What’s in New Zealand’s long-awaited climate adaptation plan? And what was left out?

Inner-city homelessness has become an economic emergency

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A brief history of New Zealand’s buzziest op shop finds

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The cost of being: A disability beneficiary who can only work one day a week

The Cost of Being