Lindsay Mitchell

The following chart is from a report called Dynamic Benefits and is based on UK data. The UK has a lone parent benefit rate similar to NZ in...

This won't be a very popular post but I am going to say something - or two if I can stretch to it - positive about Sue Bradford. When I ...

A Palmerston North judge banned photographs of the accused and the accused is not seeking bail. The reason for both actions is the "ly...

Hone Harawira plans to slaughter tobacco industry executives when he drags them before a Maori Affairs select committee 'full inquiry...

A post over at Oswald's reminded me of two protest signs recently waved at the President of the US; "The problem with Obama isn...

Garth George's column today is the work of a grumpy old man not thinking straight. It's a punitive rant against young people drivin...

Apparently the PPTA are going to make submissions to the government regarding accessibility of computers to poor kids. Thousands of - one es...

Yesterday I posted statistics showing that convictions for crime had increased by 28 percent in the last ten years and one commentor said th...

That was quick - 6 weeks old, eating solids, drinking cow's milk and house-trained. Now they need homes - except for Geoffrey. Geoffrey ...

Conviction and sentencing statistics 1999 - 2008 contains lots of interesting stuff. For instance; * Between 1999 and 2008, the number...

Some discussion on talkback about two recent deaths due to drink/driving highlighted in the DomPost, prompted me to look at a country where ...

Historian, David Thompson, wrote an essay in 1990 about the scholarship surrounding the New Zealand welfare state. He described it as uncrit...

A commentor has taken issue with my post about the number of NZ children living in workless families. Apparently the European statistics wer...

How depressing. The National/Act government can't even keep up with the Swedish government, which is reducing taxes to cope with the rec...

The Summitt I attended on Wednesday was a hand-wringing hui about children affected by recession and what the government should be doing for...

Media Release SUMMIT DELEGATE DISAGREES WITH BENEFIT RECOMMENDATIONS Thursday, 17 September, 2009 A Child Poverty Summit convened by the Ev...

Media release OVER HALF OF ADOLESCENTS SPENT TIME ON A BENEFIT Thursday, September 17, 2009 As many as 55 percent of children reaching adole...

Paula Bennett is impressed with 1,000 new subsidised jobs created after potential employers were offered $5,000 to employ a young person fo...

This is the first thing I read today and is probably the best thing I will read today. The title is a challenge. Those who want to keep on ...