Opinion

Why we're feeling poor: Prices for schools, health and other 'needs' up about 200% in 20 years

By Elizabeth Knight
Updated July 23 2019 - 5:01pm, first published 2:30pm
The prices of, for example, secondary and tertiary education, healthcare, childcare, insurance, housing and most utilities have increased significantly more than the CPI. Photo: Daniel Kalisz
The prices of, for example, secondary and tertiary education, healthcare, childcare, insurance, housing and most utilities have increased significantly more than the CPI. Photo: Daniel Kalisz

Over the past 20 years a yawning gap has emerged between the cost of living and our sagging standard of living as the prices of many of the goods and services we 'need' have risen way in excess of the prices for our discretionary 'wants'.

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