Food Prices - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Sun, 16 Oct 2022 17:33:58 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Food Prices - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Highest jump in food costs in more than a decade puts Government under pressure https://cathnews.co.nz/2022/10/17/food-costs-inflation-statistics-government/ Mon, 17 Oct 2022 06:54:01 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=153071 Soaring food costs in every supermarket aisle continue to batter families and put more pressure on the Government as new figures show food inflation is at a 13-year-high. Stats NZ figures released on Thursday show food prices jumped by 8.3% in September compared to the year before, while fruit and vegetables increased by 16%. The Read more

Highest jump in food costs in more than a decade puts Government under pressure... Read more]]> Soaring food costs in every supermarket aisle continue to batter families and put more pressure on the Government as new figures show food inflation is at a 13-year-high.

Stats NZ figures released on Thursday show food prices jumped by 8.3% in September compared to the year before, while fruit and vegetables increased by 16%.

The Government has substantially increased benefits, the largest increases since the 1940s, but households continue to face soaring prices for basic essentials - a phenomenon National says means people are getting "pummelled" and has the Greens calling for an immediate boost to benefits.

"Basic produce has soared in the last year; broccoli up 44%, cauliflower up 53%, kiwifruit up 42% [and] onions up 40%," National's finance spokesperson Nicola Willis said. Read more

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A five-year doctoral study by Waikato University sociologist Dr Kellie McNeill has found that charities served 25,000 free meals, Work and Income gave out 12,000 food grants and foodbanks gave out 4,000 food parcels in Hamilton in 2006-07. That was at a time when the economy was booming. National statistics suggest the recession may have roughly doubled Read more

Foodlessness - eating your dinner and wondering... Read more]]> A five-year doctoral study by Waikato University sociologist Dr Kellie McNeill has found that charities served 25,000 free meals, Work and Income gave out 12,000 food grants and foodbanks gave out 4,000 food parcels in Hamilton in 2006-07.

That was at a time when the economy was booming.

National statistics suggest the recession may have roughly doubled those numbers since then. Today More than 40,000 children are being fed by charities every week as low-income families struggle to cope with soaring food prices.

Dr McNeill was moved to undertake the study after returning, in 2005, to the suburb of Fairfield in Hamilton where she had spent the first fifteen years of her life. A young man knocked on her door on a Sunday afternoon asking for food.

"I ate my own dinner that night wondering about the nature and prevalence of foodlessness in my community," she said. "What had happened in my old neighbourhood that people were now reduced to door-knocking to meet basic needs?"

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The Salvation Army's Consumer Price Survey of food prices at a South Auckland supermarket released on Wednesday showed increases for the year to June 2011 of 9.1 per cent for a single-parent family with two children and 8.2 per cent for a two-parent family with three children. This contrasts markedly with Statistics New Zealand's all Read more

Poor hit by rising food prices... Read more]]> The Salvation Army's Consumer Price Survey of food prices at a South Auckland supermarket released on Wednesday showed increases for the year to June 2011 of 9.1 per cent for a single-parent family with two children and 8.2 per cent for a two-parent family with three children. This contrasts markedly with Statistics New Zealand's all groups CPI rise of 5.3 per cent and food inflation of 7.5 per cent for the same period.

"The survey emphasises the fact that we, as a country, are failing to address the growing poverty problem," said the Salvation Army's Campbell Roberts.

The Salvation Army has been monitoring the cost of the same basket of food, cleaning and personal hygiene products from the same South Auckland supermarket every quarter since June 2008.

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