Don Brash set a goal of getting 100,000 people off welfare in the three years following the election of a National government. Assuming that policy is retained, compare it to what the UK Labour government is proposing; to move 1.3 million beneficiaries (including 300,000 single parents) into work. They have set themselves a target of 80% employment. The plan is supported by Blair and Brown.
This gives the NZ Labour government impetus to match National's goal. They know that there is far more support for policies produced and practiced in the UK. The US is too tough, too capitalist so they propagate, very successfully, anti-Americanism.
Watch out for National and Labour squabbling next year over who can do a better job of cutting beneficiary numbers.
The pathetic thing is, this new report makes NO mention of prevention. Shutting the gate. Deterring newcomers. That is central to the problem.
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Have you tried going on the Unemployment Benefit lately?
If you have, you'll know why we have so many on Sickness Benefits instead.
I guess it's like a form of Honour among Thieves:
It's still not "acceptable" to put the Jack Boot into a Sick Person.
But don't go into a WINZ Office wanting the UB. They've been trained... because the Labour Government wants to claim low unemployment figures.
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