Lindsay Mitchell

One explanation for why Jobseeker numbers continue to climb despite the unemployment rate staying low might be part-time employment. An in...

Latest stats just released by MSD Here's the longer term back story:

Almost 12,000 more children on benefits February 25, 2020 Lindsay Mitchell, Welfare commentator and researcher Data released under th...

Indexing benefits to wages is setting a precedent. They've been indexed to inflation since 2001 but this move has always been resisted....

Given child poverty reduction isn't playing well for Jacinda, she might reflect on this piece of realism and honesty from Don Brash as N...

Reported in a soundbite during tonight's TV One News the italicised finding below. The press release  from which the soundbite arose: ...

Here the official unemployment rate (from the HLFS ) is charted against the receipt of Jobseeker benefit (from MSD fact sheets ) by region...

There are people in prison who shouldn't be there. And there are people who aren't in prison who should be there.  According to...

Regarding the Flaxmere tragedy, earlier this week we were told : "Foster said no other government agencies, such as Oranga Tamariki...

A few weeks back I posted about burgeoning and  massively expensive motel residence funded by Work and Income. Just advised from MSD: ...

This evening, a gathering for a karakia for the nameless beaten Flaxmere four-year-old delivers an honest observation : Hastings District...

Much has been mentioned by media lately regarding student debt. There's another kind of debt that hits the young too. Child support debt...

By chance I happened upon a Teenage Parent Evidence Brief produced for Oranga Tamariki (OT) and published last August. It is well known no...

Statistics NZ last week reported that 'Prison building intentions triple in 2019'. Is that reflective of a rise in the prison popul...

A husband making a fleeting appearance at the very end of this story took me by surprise.

The December unemployment rate is down from 4.1 to 4 percent. But there underlying trends seen when graphed out ie the European and Maori r...

As police are about to take to bikes .... ...I recommend the following tutorial:

A Stuff headline reads: How employers are freezing the over 50s out of the job market The single and over-45 population is more likely...

In the financial year ending 2019, food grants exceeded the number granted during the GFC - when unemployment reached 6.7% - by 38.6 percent...

Minister Stuart Nash does a weekly session with National MP, Mark Mitchell, on the Mike Hosking NewstalkZB show. This morning, before H...