Response to last week's Welfare Working Group report shows that not so many of us are fooled by shonky stats and a new generation of beneficiary bashing rhetoric
A week ago today, Welfare Working Group Chair Paula Rebstock launched their first official report ‘Long term benefit dependency – th
Unemployment and benefit figures keep rising, but Government continues with misguided and dangerous reforms; Jobs Summit passion a faded memory
There has been a sharp and sudden rise in unemployment over the last 3 months, apparently taking economists and forecasters by surprise.
The appointment of Carl Davidson raises some problematic questions about the future of the Families and Children's Commissions
In the face of National's employment law and welfare reforms, how will Labour and the unions respond?
Yesterday John Key used the National Party's annual conference to announce drastic changes to employment law.
Opposition MPs walked out on the Law & Order Committee yesterday because of Sandra Goudie's poor chairing--John Key should take action; after all committee work is at the heart of an MP's job
Sandra Goudie hasn’t exactly been a star in the parliamentary firmament since she first attained a place at the rear of National’s much diminished back bench in 2002.
Second Wellington welfare conference in two weeks locks out all but the wealthy or well-funded
Welfare reform is certainly a hot topic on the Wellington conference circuit this month.
