Kate MacNamara: Why the wage subsidy was so broad and who should give it back

Post author By New Zealand Blog News Service
Post date September 26, 2020

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There are many words to describe New Zealand’s autumn Covid-19 lockdown and the Government wage subsidy that helped much of the country through it: “windfall” isn’t one of them. But that hasn’t …

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