It beholds me once again to give you the full story. Minister of Maori Affairs, Mr Parekura Horomia is thrilled to bits that Maori unemployment has dropped below 10,000 - a 78 percent drop since December 1999. Now it isn't really good practice to compare different months of the year due to seasonal variation so I will compare December 1999 to December 2006;
Maori on;
Invalids benefit up 102%
Sickness benefit up 91%
DPB up 11%
The DPB increase is, by the way, against the trend.
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Plus, we've had a couple of censuses etc, so is there any chance that more people have (re)defined themselves as 'Maori'?
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