Unemployment rate falls to 3-year low
New Zealand’s jobless rate fell to a three-year low in the first three months of the year as the employment rate grew for the first time in four quarters, fuelled by demand for workers in Canterbury
Before bloody Paula Bennett starts singing and dancing, let’s be clear – the unemployment rate dropped because of Christchurch rebuild, not because of good economic stewardship.
Waiting around and hoping for another earthquake isn’t an employment policy, but that’s all this Government have.
We still have 146 000 jobless and almost 84 000 looking for more work. Those NZers locked out of employment and holding on each week by their fingernails through measly part time work have nothing to celebrate today.
Classic case of the Broken Window Parable. Hell, shock doctrine disaster capitalism is itself a logical conclusion of said parable.
No good expecting NZ to buck global trends. We entered the reversal of the Industrial Revolution phase of human existence several years ago. It’s all downhill from here.
Of course there is plenty of work to be done preparing for collapse of the food supply. But in a culture of denial nothing gets done.
The employment rate went up in the first quarter because we’ve had exceptionally good weather for those three months. That means everyone who has an outside job that needs doing decides it’s a good time to get it done. But they all tend to be seasonal jobs that disapppear with the good weather.
The same thing happened a couple of years ago when we had settled weather in the second quarter and the government was going “look at what we’re doing” and then the third quarter was cold and wet and everything was back the way it was before.
The present government
Drives by
Looking through the
Rear View Mirror
Ummm, I don’t suppose the fifty odd thousand who buggered off overseas in the last 12 months has a part in anything to do with the drop in jobless figures?
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