More than just a shortage of money is negatively affecting children in benefit-dependent homes. If poor children in working households have better outcomes, then increasing parental employment would be a better strategy than increasing benefits.
Queensland public servants screech, ‘Gimme, gimme, gimme!’
The free-market miracles that transformed West Germany and Japan into economic powerhouses within a decade are so incredibly remarkable that one has to ask, “Why don’t Americans learn about them in public schools today?”
The Aloha State is finally facing the problem.
A likely reduction in Whānau Ora funding rattles Te Pāti Māori.
The consequences of these still-elevated house prices in terms of social distress are all around us. Solve that problem, and many other social problems melt away.
Edmonds needs to look at the ingredients that go into making a successful recipe for the economy; otherwise, she might end up with no more than a burnt offering.
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Our pressing problem is very much not equity – it is efficiency. Once that’s sorted out, we will be on our way up again.
It’s clear that Simeon is promising to bring councils to heel and stop them wasting ratepayer money on bullshit.
‘They have shown what extremist economic morons they are and how little they value the future of our country.’ – Peters.
