The rise of high cost debt in Aotearoa is purely a response of the successive political movement to keep the bottom third of families living below the poverty line. No-one actually worried about the families at the time that Ruth Richardson’s mother of all budgets came in. The only goal of decreasing benefits then was to provide a gap between benefits and wages, so that wages could be pulled down.
E tū members at Fuji Xerox offices around the country will take strike action today (Monday, 25 February) in support…
Alarming new research from FinCap reveals the high occurrence of unsafe credit amongst those on low incomes in Aotearoa, and…
Labelling people socialists and communists is rife while the government starts to make the big changes that selfish, privileged nation wreckers are damned they will see happen, as long as they can enjoy the inequity of their ill gotten gains at the expense of all our great grandchildren and a more egalitarian future.
“The government already knows the solution to the problem, they talked about it in opposition, it’s simple: scrap the PTOM…
Responding to the release of the Tax Working Group’s final report, Oxfam New Zealand’s executive director Rachael Le Mesurier…
The Howard League for Penal Reform has been alerted by a prisoner to a situation at Auckland Prison where prisoners,…
In response to three more Hector’s Dolphins killed near Banks Peninsula: Global animal welfare organisation World Animal Protection, is calling…
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