Welfare group opposes The Warehouse workfare programme
The Red Shirts for the Community programme, where the Warehouse hire unemployed youth to do unpaid labour creates a poverty…
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Budget 2017: Lines outside Work and Income show Budgets fail to address poverty
Every Friday at Clendon Work and Income people and whānau line up to see a AAAP advocate so that they…
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Budget 2017: Welfare group says Social Investment approach is about punishment, not investment – AAAP
Social Investment is about punishing the poor and reducing spending, not investing in social services and improving social outcomes. …
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Budget 2017: Welfare group says Accommodation Supplement increase is a con job – AAAP
Increases in the Accommodation Supplement (AS) means an equal deduction from Temporary Additional Support (TAS). “The government is cynically…
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Mother’s Day protest to grill Bill on housing, welfare and work
Welfare activists will be protesting outside the National Party Northern Regional Convention today to demand universal access to state housing…
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Labour and Greens fiscal management rules offer no change – AAAP
Labour and Greens new Budget Responsibility Rules for fiscal management demonstrates a lack of commitment to the low paid and…
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Auckland action against poverty – Uni research highlights deficiencies in Govt job policies
New university research highlights the grave deficiencies in the ‘work first’ approach to welfare so beloved of both National and…
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Stats used to fudge unemployment level: Nats desperate – AAAP
National is now resorting to tricks with employment statistics to make the economy look healthier than it is. “Such ploys…
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Budget an insult to the thousands without homes – AAAP
“Today’s Budget is pitiful in the face of the biggest housing crisis since the 1930s Depression. “With thousands of people…
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Social Security rewrite entrenches war on the poor – AAAP
Last night Parliament voted by a vast majority to support new legislation which entrenches New Zealand’s vindictive and pauperising welfare system.