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A collage features hiking boots with an ice cream cone in one boot and yarn with knitting needles in the other. The background has financial charts. Text reads "THE COST OF BEING" on the right.

The cost of being: A retiree for whom ‘living lightly is a lifestyle choice’

The Cost of Being

A person with a steak as a head holds a display screen showing 10:35 and a music player icon. The background has red grid lines and financial data. Green dollar signs appear beside them. Text on the side reads "The Cost of Being.

The cost of being: An ‘underpaid marketing guy’ who’s ‘poor but happy’

The Cost of Being

A collage on a grid background features a hand holding a smartphone with a game, a white jacket, a fried chicken drumstick, and the text "THE COST OF BEING" in red and green. Rows of numbers are visible behind the main elements.

The cost of being: A first-year high school teacher who will ‘always find a discount code’

The Cost of Being

A collage with red shoes, a brown paper bag spilling coffee beans, and a grey yoga mat on a grid background. Green dollar signs and text reading "The Cost of Being" are present.

The cost of being: A ‘secure but spontaneous’ 40-something public servant

The Cost of Being

A stylised image featuring the distinctive rounded architecture of the Beehive and the classical columns of the Parliament House in Wellington, New Zealand. The scene is overlaid with blue and pink tones, and silhouettes of walking people are visible above.

Going backwards for growth

Better-than-expected GDP data raises hopes of an economic recovery

Catherine McGregor

a man in a suit stands in front of a stock market board with his hands on his head in despair

Hot tip: Don’t look at your KiwiSaver right now

Illustration of a dragon with glowing green and blue patterns, next to a large white dollar sign on a dark green circle. The background features faint images of paper currency.

The Māori economy is more diverse and wealthier than ever

A red scooter with a plastic cider bottle and slices of cheese on its deck. The background has red graph lines with numerical data. Text on the right reads, "The Cost of Being.

The cost of being: An unemployed 31-year-old who wishes he could afford good food

The Cost of Being

an orange olive tree background and lots of the items that Bayyaāra sells including paper wrapped soap with arabic writing, olive oil,ceramics a schrnchie and a wooden bowl

How (and why) to start a Palestinian boutique