Lindsay Mitchell

MSD thinks so: The KickStart Breakfast programme will tomorrow celebrate 10-years as the only national breakfast programme of its kind in...

Switch on the computer this morning and  kick off with the really important stuff - an article  and short movie  about my favourite dog - t...

Over recent years the narrative amongst the media has been 'falling home ownership'. Today in Stuff Susan Edmonds writes : "A...

Yesterday Statistics NZ released results from the General Social Survey which asks respondents whether they have enough money to meet every...

Just released  139 percent increase.

The Child Poverty Action Group is holding a summit later this month. This statement is from the release about it: Late into 2019, 174,00...

I heard Kim Workman expressing a view this morning that withholding benefits from gangs would result in more crime. He may well be right...

Couple of quick points. Stuff is reporting that Labour abolished the sanction for not naming the father of a child on a benefit and that ...

National is revisiting the past with its 'Social Services - Discussion Document.' When Jenny Shipley was Prime Minister, "...

If National comes out promising to attack gang welfare dependency you can bet your bottom dollar the Left will counter with, "But what ...

Last week I blogged about RNZ skewing benefit numbers. Now they have just posted a report about National criticising the rise in Jobseeke...

The MSD Annual Report has just been published. No desired outcome achieved. All against a backdrop of lowest unemploymen...

Alex Penk from the Maxim Institute had an opinion piece regarding the proposed End of Life referendum,  MPs are paid, and better equipped, t...

According to Radio NZ : There are still 109,000 people in New Zealand on a benefit, out of work. Fifty-two percent of those people have ei...

Over at Kiwi Blog a commentor has posted on a discussion about the rising dole numbers: MCos I would suggest the problem is with the lon...

I had a discussion with Mike Hosking on NewstalkZB yesterday about why the numbers on Jobseeker continue to escalate. There are at least a c...

Yesterday Sean Plunket interviewed Jim Flynn on Magic Talk and it was a fascinating 15 minutes.  Flynn left the US to escape the persec...

The Child Poverty Action Group has a list of goals it believes will improve outcomes for New Zealand children. They are: Substantially im...

There's been discussion over the past two days about taxing wealthy pensioners more to claw back their Super. More and more 65+ year-ol...

If this is true... While Bridges wouldn't speak directly to the policies being considered, it's understood they include fines of...