“It’s time for the Government to wake up to the reality of economic violence” said Mrs Turia.
Economic violence is when people are impoverished by being deprived of access to power and resources, putting human dignity at danger.
“This latest report makes it quite clear - the peak in child deaths was from late 1980s and 1990s - the so-called experimental years in New Zealand’s economy - when unemployment was highest and when benefits were cut” says Mrs Turia.
Here are two charts from the report. Whatever is "clear" to Ms Turia is not to me.
(The report repeatedly cautions using these figures to discern trends because such small changes in the absolute number substantially alters the rate of child death.)
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'Economic violence'
What utter bollocks!
The term "economic violence" diminishes real violence - makes it "understandable". The sort of language abuse that the Khmer Rouge engaged in to justify execution.
A victim of "Economic violence" is a victim of their own "economic uselessness"
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