Lindsay Mitchell

MSD monitors the effectiveness of its spending on employment assistance. The 2016/17 assessment has just been published. "$149 mill...

Based on the most recently available prison statistics the total muster is reducing. The PM says : "We've seen about 1000 fewer ...

Ever-interested in the behavioural response to 'incentives' I was looking at recent birth data . Labour promised and delivered great...

(Left-click to enlarge) Sean Plunket ran a show attacking Super receipt today; those taking it while continuing to work, and any taking...

What else would you take from today's release ? This is no more than an advance move to ward off criticism about the number of benefi...

PUAO-TE-ATA-TU (day break) THE REPORT OF THE MINISTERIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON A MAORI PERSPECTIVE FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE 19...

In recent history, the NZ un employment rate saw the best of times in the latest quarter - December 2018.  It saw the worst of times when ...

Nationally, since December 2017, the number of benefit sanctions has reduced by 42 percent. But the reduction is extraordinarily inconsiste...

NewstalkZB reports that NZ has a "shocking" rate of unplanned pregnancies, 6th in the OECD apparently. There is almost certainly ...

Released today, benefit numbers continue to climb even as so many industries are experiencing shortages of workers. The aged-care sector, a...

"The doctors’ strike is part of an upsurge of working class struggle internationally in opposition to brutal austerity measures imposed...

In 2007 the police introduced a new kind of road spike that, according to the NZ Herald ,"....can penetrate all tyre types and are desi...

RNZ reports : The country's first crime and victims survey suggests almost two million crimes were committed last year, about seven ti...

Thanks to Bob McCoskrie who sent me this Australian research which finds that relationship breakdown is  the most prolific cause of homeless...

This personal question arose on the back of my comments regarding the demise of Radio Live. Hosts I like and listen to are genuine. Others...

This graph is from the US. NZ likes to think it is 'classless.' It isn't. I have to say though, this graph raises question...

Radio Live is kaput Haven't listened to them during the day for a long time. Not since Sean Plunket departed. Back in the day Paul H...

In my recent paper about  Imprisonment and Family Structure ,  I touched on the phenomenon of multi-partner fertility and how it increases p...

Just updating artist blog with this pastel of Wesney, who is now the grand age of 15.

The unemployment rate has dropped to 3.9% - a great result for the government. But since the non-publication of latest official chil...