Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:04 am, July 25th, 2017 - 25 comments
Bruce Munro’s excellent piece in the ODT, looks in to the truth behind the Nats’ job numbers: “It does not take much digging in Statistics New Zealand’s latest Household Labour Force Survey to uncover a growing world of low-paid work, insufficient working hours, financial struggles and unfulfilled lives”.
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:02 am, January 25th, 2017 - 53 comments
Any increase in the minimum wage is better than nothing, but National’s increases have not kept pace with the real cost increases (notably housing) faced by low income earners. That is why we are seeing the rise of the working poor, and increases in homelessness and poverty.
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 10:53 am, July 19th, 2016 - 73 comments
The unaffordability of Auckland housing is now seriously impacting even moderately well paid professions. As these trends continue, how is Auckland going to cope without without workers?
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 2:52 pm, May 17th, 2016 - 97 comments
Coverage of Auckland’s homeless goes international. The working poor are now the working homeless.
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 12:04 pm, July 21st, 2015 - 40 comments
As the Nats celebrate “falling” benefit numbers it turns out that almost half who leave the benefit are not going in to work. So what happens to them?
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 12:21 pm, July 7th, 2015 - 11 comments
The government has awarded itself a nice report card. Let’s take a closer look.
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:11 am, June 17th, 2015 - 139 comments
Trickle down economics is pronounced dead by the IMF. Housing, the working poor and the economy – the policy settings are wrong everywhere.
Written By: Stephanie Rodgers - Date published: 1:00 pm, March 24th, 2015 - 67 comments
In times of trouble for the National Party, you can always rely on them to raise the rallying cry of “Personal responsibility!!!”
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 9:20 am, November 8th, 2014 - 183 comments
The Nats’ line on poverty is that beneficiaries need to get in to work. The rise of the working poor both in NZ and internationally, shows what nonsense that excuse is.
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 9:13 am, September 13th, 2014 - 46 comments
National is not interested in doing anything about poverty in NZ. They won’t even officially measure poverty, because they don’t want to know.
The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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