Written By: weka - Date published: 10:23 am, April 24th, 2024 - 20 comments
Categories: class, Culture wars, Maori Issues, sexism
Tags:
… capitalism and are kept in or just above poverty by how we…. Low waged jobs are essential in keeping the accumulation of capital and… instead of mitigation. They will keep on with the death cult… number of people argued against me strongly assuming I was pro…
Written By: Guest post - Date published: 8:00 am, September 15th, 2017 - 148 comments
Categories: election 2017, national, political parties, poverty
Tags: capitalism, discrimination
… All of this while living in poverty and running a house off… Here I sit, National voters. In poverty! I sit here due to…to mothers like me being cut. I sit in poverty due to a… National for holding people like me in poverty. Looks like studying hard, working…
...is encompassing ALL children living in poverty with the drug-brush. ...is all too happy to keep ordinary workers on low incomes...are reason why children live in poverty.In very few instances this could...such things as helping kids in poverty.In the lead up to the...
Written By: weka - Date published: 6:05 am, June 12th, 2023 - 160 comments
Categories: election 2023, greens, james shaw, Metiria Turei, unemployment
Tags: GMI, Guaranteed Minimum Income, ubi
…really speaks to me of the intention to end poverty. The plan…due to disability to live in poverty. SLP is the long …for disabled people, and we keep them in poverty, forcing them to live…their partner Nothing has told me more about Labour's 'deserving poor…
Written By: weka - Date published: 1:30 pm, August 1st, 2022 - 54 comments
Categories: benefits, greens, labour, poverty
Tags: Cost of Living payment, Winter Energy Payment
… rates is because beneficiaries live in poverty and can't afford their power… nothing about ending poverty in that position. Nothing tells me more about Labour's… are knowingly and intentionally keeping people in poverty who have no other way…
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 8:03 am, October 25th, 2014 - 37 comments
Categories: Ethics, loan sharks, poverty, quality of life
Tags: belonging, people like us, poverty, quality of life
…of thought-provoking accounts of poverty lately. The first was a…thing I have found that keeps me from collapsing or exploding. I… to hold on to. … Poverty is bleak and cuts off…exhaustion of poverty. The poor decisions that make sense in context. The…
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 9:36 am, April 27th, 2013 - 2 comments
Categories: national, poverty
Tags: poverty watch
…to value. It continually astounds me that right-wing governments are…choices matter. Kids are living in poverty because we collectively chose to…… In recent news – there's too much, I really can't keep up… poor say that Key is in poverty ‘la la land’. The…
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 1:01 pm, June 8th, 2013 - 5 comments
Categories: national, poverty
Tags: poverty watch
… (OCC) 2012 report "Child Poverty in New Zealand evidence for action…clear action point. Bear with me: II. SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENTS HAVE ALREADY…people working part time to keep more of the money they… poor say that Key is in poverty ‘la la land’. The …
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 2:33 pm, December 15th, 2011 - 37 comments
Categories: class war, david shearer, john key, poverty
Tags: child poverty, inequality
… of kids living in poverty was falling (at last) in the later years… cheaper to fix poverty than it is to keep paying the costs… wish to be included in a "ministerial poverty committee" is unlikely to… as usual. It suggests to me that the Nats are perfectly…
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:30 am, December 31st, 2017 - 8 comments
Categories: Politics, The Standard, The Standard line
Tags:
…the most interest to progressives in Aotearoa. But before I …a great deal of attention in Facebookland. Sixth was the …titled Do you want to keep me in poverty and detailed her personal experience…ridicule upon us in his Hard Talk interview, for me though the…
... asked - Do you want to keep me in poverty? No No No - I had... a goood start in life but I want everyone... we in 1950's got in that former 'Egilitarian' world. It makes me very...
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 10:24 am, June 23rd, 2016 - 38 comments
Categories: class war, human rights, national, quality of life
Tags: brighter future, Environment, global economy, personal stories, poverty
… it. People like me should help you leave. … In The Wireless by… just had enough of me and sent me off: ‘See you later… than 270,000 children living in poverty right now? Ummm. Why do… 2010, leaving it unable to keep up with inflation and population…
...addressed why Lab fought to keep WFF exempt from beneficaries?" ...about me yet did not address the priorities of Lab in deferring...keeping elderly in poverty is as bad as keeping kids in poverty. I mean, I'd be in...man Key just wants to keep everyone in poverty.
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 11:50 am, September 30th, 2023 - 38 comments
Categories: child abuse, child welfare, crime, Economy, labour, national, poverty, prisons, same old national, Social issues
Tags:
…77,000 fewer kids living in poverty that this Government has achieved…original finding,” Richie Poulton told me, “was that you can't really…to be focused on children in poverty, because we're bored of …by National then vote to keep them out. And I understand…
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:35 am, October 13th, 2016 - 210 comments
Categories: benefits, Economy, john key, Judith Collins, national, same old national, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, welfare, you couldn't make this shit up
Tags: homeless, homeless crisis
… PC, but, you know, that's me." It seems that on planet… with 40% of kids living in poverty has parents who are working… poverty in New Zealand. She then launched her attack on the parents. Keep…
... really speaks to me of the intention to end poverty. The plan...due to disability to live in poverty. SLP is the long term... for disabled people, and we keep them in poverty, forcing them to live... their partner Nothing has told me more about Labour’s ‘deserving...
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 8:00 am, January 28th, 2015 - 302 comments
Categories: Andrew Little, labour, Politics
Tags:
…their families and to keep skills in New Zealand. My … children living below the poverty line. Those kids would… be the priority for me as the new leader… kids who fall into poverty and have to rely… of unemployment in the developed world. Let me say that…
Written By: karol - Date published: 12:32 pm, November 19th, 2013 - 132 comments
Categories: child welfare, class, community democracy, feminism, patriarchy, paula bennett, political alternatives, poverty, sexism, unemployment
Tags: kyriarchy, social security
… me that, while some commentators use the class argument in… We live in a world in which women living in poverty face gross inequalities… violence. For a woman in poverty. Over her lifetime, she…malaria combined. This is in keeping with Bill's post on …
Written By: Ben Clark - Date published: 9:27 am, December 11th, 2012 - 54 comments
Categories: poverty
Tags: children's commissioner
… needed to fight child poverty, a report from the… our 270,000 children in poverty include: Quick, cheap … Increased focus on keeping young parents in education. Create community…me started on their wrong direction for state/social housing… Child Poverty…
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 10:14 am, January 18th, 2012 - 93 comments
Categories: accountability, democratic participation, Media, poverty
Tags: censorship
… released showing that childhood poverty has generational effects and … poverty upset them. Unfortunately, I don't mean 'upset them' in …the Nats upset because the poverty documentary was politically biased?… McElrea argues that "To me, it falls into the area…
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 11:59 am, December 18th, 2011 - 97 comments
Categories: david shearer
Tags:
…by condemning them to live in poverty. We have one of the…% of our people growing up in poverty is a less productive workforce… but by acting ethically, by keeping to both the letter and…new committee on poverty. Unfortunately, Mr Key turned me down. You will…
Clegg, Avast me Harties!, He and Labour ...a rigged system designed to keep people in poverty. Bloody good luck to...millions of people voted to keep the Tories out, only ...whichever government happens to be in charge at the time. ... beginning." Sounds good to me."
... doesn't really make sense to me Wayne. Increasing benefits, by whatever... through hard times. Fairness is in the eye of the beholder... coerce people into long term poverty? We've been socially sanctioning that... you think it's fair to keep people in poverty.
... them in poverty." Wow. I had no idea my drug taking was keeping me in... unemployment. Here's me thinking it was too...
..., Another definition of festering in the Oxford dictionary is 'stagnating'...has been what has alerted me to the issues with ...had rock hard motivation, desperation in fact, prior to committing ...and poverty because that is about the only thing that keeps me in ...
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:17 pm, August 20th, 2017 - 111 comments
Categories: election 2017, jacinda ardern, labour
Tags:
…? We have infrastructure in our cities that cannot keep up with daily… bothers me the most, we have nearly 300,000 kids living in poverty… age and any background can keep learning. With a Labour Government…
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 2:35 pm, January 27th, 2013 - 93 comments
Categories: david shearer, greens, labour, Metiria Turei
Tags:
…the 270,000 kids trapped in poverty. We have pressured the New… Green Party Asset Keepers in the Keep Our Assets campaign. That…I need you to join me in getting those last signatures now…this Minister. If the Government keeps attacking schools and kids, …
... Kiwi kids growing up in poverty.[xxxviii] We live in a country where...’s simply a way of keeping children quiet while the parents...? Of course not. Yet we keep squandering our children’s inheritance... make? Can anyone here look me in the eye and say that...
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 2:45 pm, May 22nd, 2016 - 170 comments
Categories: Andrew Little, budget 2016
Tags: speech
… $2,200 a day. Let me say that figure again. Over… of course ‘voluntary donations’ just keep on rising. And what parent…. 305,000 children growing up in poverty. Sleeping in cars, going to school… it was Grant Robertson and me delivering the Budget next week…
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:09 pm, August 8th, 2020 - 94 comments
Categories: election 2020, jacinda ardern, labour, uncategorized
Tags:
…. Two things stood out to me. The first, was that every… secondly, it struck me that my belief in what we needed to… have done. Fewer children live in poverty. More homes are being built…, is the time to keep going, to keep working. To do more…
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 1:57 pm, July 5th, 2020 - 40 comments
Categories: election 2020, jacinda ardern, labour, uncategorized
Tags:
… hosting me and giving me good advice, he told me that …the impacts of that still. Poverty, inequality, persistent unemployment. It…benefitted from the scheme – keeping them in work, and providing them… because they have told me that. In fact, over the course…
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