tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post1699727010108836122..comments2024-03-04T16:39:30.609+13:00Comments on Lindsay Mitchell: Where the benefit babies are bornLindsay Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04437693272797130833noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post-63102974556582807212016-04-29T22:19:19.109+12:002016-04-29T22:19:19.109+12:00Anon 1
Pacific people make up 8.2% of all benefic...Anon 1<br /><br />Pacific people make up 8.2% of all beneficiaries and 10.8% of Single Parent beneficiaries. There's no particular disproportionate reliance.<br /><br />https://www.msd.govt.nz/about-msd-and-our-work/publications-resources/statistics/benefit/index.html<br /><br />The relative poverty of PI people and children is largely about having large families (household incomes are equivalised making them artificially low), low skill wages, and supporting their families back in the islands. Not benefit dependence.<br />Lindsay Mitchellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04437693272797130833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post-43976005931347305892016-04-29T21:06:38.553+12:002016-04-29T21:06:38.553+12:00Child poverty is largely (though not exclusively) ...<i>Child poverty is largely (though not exclusively) a result of benefit babies.</i><br /><br />No Lindsay. Child poverty is caused by welfare, plane and simple. Stop that - including state schools and healthcare - and bludgeon babies will stop immediately.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post-72418820905097506262016-04-29T20:50:47.672+12:002016-04-29T20:50:47.672+12:00Maori are specifically mentioned but what this doe...Maori are specifically mentioned but what this doesn't mention is the large Pacific Island population in Counties Manukau where they enter New Zealand on Pacific Access Schemes or Quotas, and then once they get residency, they are able to go on the Benefit. They are less likely to be able to get off the benefit due to language difficulties and lower levels of education, both of which are barriers in the increasingly technological driven workforce.<br /><br />"Child proverty" isn't only about Maori or a Social Development problem. New Zealand needs to review such Pacific access schemes so it is not importing the poverty of pacific nations.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post-42530102170075201842016-04-29T19:20:28.950+12:002016-04-29T19:20:28.950+12:00These are *abysmal* figures. A complete indictment...These are *abysmal* figures. A complete indictment of the Ministry of Social Development and its continuing refusal to see the "elephant in the room" - parents on welfare having babies. <br /><br />It's not as if the solution is difficult. Bring in strong disincentives for those on welfare to have children. <br />In other words, "if *you* breed 'em, *you* feed 'em." <br /><br />That *would* work but the government is too cowardly to take such action. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07786935427427629740noreply@blogger.com