Cost Of Living

The Green Party says people are spending more and more of their pay packet on power and have produced figures backing up their claims. Audio

Households could see their power bills drop by about 25 dollars a year under a Commerce Commission decree that cuts profit margins for electricity and gas distribution companies. Audio

Slow economic growth, the Ebola outbreak, and war. These are just some of the problems that finance ministers and policy makers will grapple at the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund… Audio

For a whole year, two Canadian flatmates didn't spend a cent on anything but essentials - food, rent, toilet paper and their mobile phone. They had been rampant consumers, but they re-considered the… Audio

Why do thousands of children go to school hungry every day and what should be done about it? Audio