Lindsay Mitchell

47.4 percent of Sole Parent Support beneficiaries are Maori. In the Youth and Young Parent category the proportion rises to 49.4 percent. ...

I'm with Sian Elias. This kind of police work makes me sick. It blurs the lines between right and wrong so badly that it can only make o...

I mention it only because the June quarter benefit statistics have not yet been released. On April 21st the minister issued a release h...

Jim Rose has highlighted the following depiction of "the percent of marriages that end in divorce" . The range of percentages fro...

Released today by Statistics NZ an article discussing "The Kiwi factor in record net migration." At the 2008 election  (w...

Updating artist blog.  Nice news on Sunday last. My entry into the annual Muriel Hopper Art Award , "Denise", received one of tw...

Just announced : “Sole Parents spend on average 14 years on a benefit, but we know that tertiary education can significantly reduce the...

David Seymour writes in today's SST: OPINION: Why are so many children born into benefit-dependent families? "Much of the coun...

Venezuela maybe? How's that working out? The 'rich' are ordering food parcels on-line from Miami. The 'middleclass' is c...

The spousing crisis is leading to homelessness and child poverty. Rental spouses are just too expensive.They are insecure and impermanent....

Why, after so long, has a prison volunteer's gang membership become an issue ? Someone is feeding stuff to Sensible Sentencing. SST i...

It's a somewhat tempting idea. It'd do for Winston Peters. Writing in the NZ Herald this morning Matt Heath says: Should ol...

RNZ is reporting : "Work and Income is owed $180 million from former and current clients who have defrauded the system - and that am...

Just what this country needs. A bleeding-heart pop star with more money than sense. I recently wrote about the Upper Hutt man who had fai...

On the back of statistics released yesterday there has been some grizzling about the top 10% increasing their share of household wealth. I ...

Ron Mansfield, the defence lawyer for one of  Moko's killers, Tania Shailer, blames "extreme poverty" for her actions. You c...

23rd May 2016 By e-mail and post Dear Ms Jagose, Re: Moko Rangitoheriri – Decision to downgrade charges I am the founder the Sensible S...

The headline reads, "Baby gets sick in crowded house" . It is now an established trend for young people to stay longer in the fa...

A social entrepreneur has contacted 300 Upper Hutt businesses to pay for school lunches for children who turn up without. He's had no ta...