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An unrelenting focus on jobs

The Standard — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:45:16 +0000

Another rightie at the trough

Zetetic — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:10:11 +0000

It's tough getting a job in the Key economy. There's 80,000 more people wanting work since Key came to office and 43,000 fewer jobs. Fortunately, there's always a do-nothing government job going ... if you know the right people. Eh, Catherine Isaac? Sure she's got no qualifications but the ACT leader-in-waiting needs an income.

A brighter future for Maori?

Eddie — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:41:50 +0000

Headline - PM to Ratana: National has made a difference

Maori unemployment under National: +15,300
Median Maori income under National: -$78 per week

Are Maori looking forward to another three years of Key's 'difference'?

Local board members support wharfies

The Standard — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:24:42 +0000

The travesty of the Port of Auckland dispute is that we have a publicly-owned company trying to slash its workers' pay so that it can try to undercut another majority publicly owned company that has already slashed wages, the only winners being the foreign shipping lines. Well, here's some of our representatives standing up for Auckland workers.

Job system & RA in need of reform, not benefits

Zetetic — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:10:29 +0000

Other day, Curran asked what they should do with Red Alert. Now, Mallard's again using it, in conjunction with Pagani on his blog, to try to do an end run around his own party to promote benefit 'reform'. Leaving aside the fact it's the employment system, not the backstop, that's broken, this is more strategic idiocy.

Labour’s jobs policy

Anthony R0bins — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:04:39 +0000

Now that we're all over Nice Mr Key, maybe we can focus on minor details like the environment, the economy, assets, and jobs...

Creating opportunities

Anthony R0bins — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 20:14:31 +0000

The Nats admit that they've failed to close the gap between rich and poor. In fact, of course, it's getting worse. Bill English says they've "created opportunities", which is Tory speak for doing nothing at all.

Treasury on the minimum wage

Anthony R0bins — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:16:05 +0000

Labour want to raise the minimum wage to $15. The Nats say that will cost jobs (they want to lower the minimum wage instead). Documents obtained by 3 News show that Treasury think the Nats are wrong. A vote for increasing the minimum wage will not cost jobs.

Jobs for the boys, and girls

Zetetic — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 23:06:30 +0000

None so blind

Eddie — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:24:49 +0000

National's economic credibility was shot to pieces last week when Fitch and Standard & Poor's gave them 'not achieved' marks. Less than a quarter of the OECD has been downgraded. New Zealand is one of them. The Nats won't admit there's a problem. When the statistics are laid in front of them, they say they're wrong. In the Nats' war with reality, we're the victims.

The Nats’ muddle, your job on the line

The Standard — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 17:43:50 +0000

As National muddles through, refusing to reexamine its economic plans after the shock double-downgrade on Friday, the job losses are starting to pile up again. It's very reminiscent of the last recession, which we will haven't recovered from thanks to 3 years of muddling. Can we afford 3 more years? Here's a list of job losses in the past month.

Chart o’ the day: Muddling through

Zetetic — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 23:14:11 +0000

Muddling through question time

Eddie — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:10:16 +0000

National did not cope well yesterday when their economic record was held up to the light. John Key was all at sea as he tried to dismiss new statistics showing 47,000 jobs have been lost under his watch. He cited instead another statistical series, which he has previously rejected when it showed 56,000 more people are unemployed under National.

The wrong problem

Anthony R0bins — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 19:13:25 +0000

Economist Paul Krugman argues that governments the world over need to wake up to the fact that they've been trying to solve the wrong problem.

Hold the front page!

Anthony R0bins — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 19:29:22 +0000

Remember those thundering editorials and opinion pieces chastising Labour for focusing on trivia instead of the substantive issues?