Time to tackle key obstacles threatening your financial future – CPAG
Nga Tangata Microfinance supports this year’s Money Week focus: encouraging NZers to positively visualise their financial future, create a plan,…
Poverty
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Child poverty linked to tertiary education policy in recent report
“The issue of student debt is often cited as a deterrent, but perhaps a greater barrier to tertiary education is the immediate financial hardship while undertaking study.”
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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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Flexible fund to help homeless welcomed – Salvation Army
Social Housing Minister the Hon. Paula Bennett’s announcement of $9 million in a flexible fund to support people in severe…
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CYPF Amendment Bill must provide better for children – CPAG
More must be done to improve services for children in order to fulfil Government’s stated commitment to the United Nations…
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Get married stay married and you won’t be poor
The Family First report, Child Poverty: Don’t Mention Family Structure by Lindsay Mitchell extols the value of the institution of marriage. According to her, family structure is the elephant in the room when child poverty solutions are discussed.
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The rules for the old too good for children?
This is how Bill English generates surpluses to justify John Key’s election year bribes of tax cuts to the rich.
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Now we got bad blood: being poor in a rich world
Our most vulnerable people are not being protected by their own government, nor even having their voices elevated by the vast majority of media tycoons such as Mike or journalists, who are meant to be truth speakers in times of universal deceit.
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Poor people: they just need to buck up their ideas and change their attitude… oh wait minute
The New Zealand Herald recently posted the opinion piece, ‘Poor’ should stop playing the blame game by Eva Bradley a highly successful young business woman. In her article she offers a diatribe in relation to poor people blaming the government for, well, their poverty.