social welfare Archive

  • frog

    The $8.95 welfare forum - by frog



    AnneE at The Hand Mirror blogs: You may have noticed that a conference on Welfare and Social Sector Policy and Reform is due to be held in Wellington on 20-21 June. The discounted advance payment cost to attend is $895. So I won’t be going to it. Nor will I.  Parliamentary budgets don’t allow for conference fees [...] read more
    June 15, 2011 10:24 am - 3 Comments
  • Metiria Turei

    The Welfare Working Group and faith-based job creation - by Metiria Turei



    Buried at page 53 of the Welfare Working Group’s report is this extraordinary statement: “…the total number of jobs will expand to equal the number of people who are available and actively seeking work.” read more
    March 10, 2011 11:05 am - 134 Comments
  • frog

    Gordon Campbell debunks right wing welfare myths - by frog



    Gordon Campbell has a great piece in this month’s Werewolf debunking some of the myths about welfare trotted out by the beneficiary bashers. Here are a few of the highlights: read more
    February 16, 2011 9:02 am - 97 Comments
  • frog

    A good news beneficiary story - by frog



    I was delighted to read a rare media story this morning depicting a beneficiary in a positive light! Well done, New Plymouth Mayor Peter Tennent, and well done, Taranaki Daily News. read more
    June 18, 2010 1:35 pm - 4 Comments
  • frog

    More from inside the WWG welfare forum - by frog



    Paula Bennett: “This debate could get uncomfortable…it could get emotional…we may even see an ugly side of New Zealand…” And who created that ugly side, Paula? read more
    June 14, 2010 11:54 am - 73 Comments
  • frog

    The bailout - by frog



    Given the just failed US$700 billion financial bailout was about preventing widespread poverty and economic turmoil I’ve been wondering whether the money couldn’t be better spent in other ways.  Now that the bailout is dead maybe USA can afford to be inventive. For that kind of money you are talking about a fairly comprehensive free [...] read more
    September 30, 2008 10:43 am - 39 Comments
  • frog

    A week of g.blog - by frog



    g.blog was busy over the weekend with Ari joining to report on an innovative new solar glass technology that concentrates different colours of light into a focused border around the edge of the glass: …part of what makes solar power so expensive is that the light that we collect for it is very unfocused, and [...] read more
    August 18, 2008 11:06 am - 10 Comments
  • frog

    Russel’s response to Helen Clark - by frog



    Here’s Russel again, this time responding to the Prime Minister’s speech this morning. And Frog’s got a few questions for the Prime Minister: If the problem is the poverty caused by the 1991 Mother of All Budget cuts, why is the solution keeping young people in schools (or other forms of education) and a $9 [...] read more
    January 30, 2008 2:53 pm - 17 Comments