Lindsay Mitchell

I posted yesterday about the child poverty stats and why they are a joke. While recalibration shows better reduction, nothing materially ch...

MSD set up a division of case managers to work with people who enter the benefit system very young and/or are "entrenched" benefic...

Child poverty stats are a joke. If grown-ups get collectively poorer, children get richer (relatively). Never has this been better illustrat...

 Here's National on the March quarter benefit stats: Labour Mislead on Negative Statistics Again Labour’s celebratory social media posts...

MSD has just released a report into how Labour's Families Package has affected incomes of parents with infants in the first six months ...

 Regular readers will know I love data. It's like a toy you can play with in different ways. The visual representation relays speedily w...

Three graphs for you from March quarter benefit fact sheets released today. Unsurprisingly, large increase in Jobseeker numbers year-on-yea...

In regard to my last post questioning what children learn from beneficiary mothers with ingrained helplessness and over-developed senses of...

Here is a mother on a Sole Parent Support benefit. She has four children and debt to MSD of nearly $10,000. She repays $46 out of the basic ...

 From Newshub : ACT is accusing Labour MP Willie Jackson of "perpetuating a victimhood mentality" for saying we have "institu...

The worst form of racism perpetrated against Maori is that "they all think the same way." They don't. Never have and never wil...

 Is it interesting that of those people convicted of breaching covid 19 restrictions  - most were men - around half were under 30 - around h...

Great column from Damien Grant this morning. It nails the frustration that those of us older than most current  MPs feel. "One of the e...

 According to today's Economist A commission in Britain that was created after last year’s Black Lives Matter protests to investigate ...

Indexing benefits to wages last year set a precedent. They've been indexed to inflation since 2001 but indexing to wages had always been...

 Having a bit of a tidy up when I came across these photos which show the development of one of my favourite subjects and paintings, Herbie:

The PM's office was trying to get data to show that rents have risen in line with wage increases apparently. PM's chief press secre...

A media report yesterday talked about landlords "threatening" to hike rents in response to to Labour's closing the "looph...

Over the ten year period to 2018, births of NZ European babies were reasonably evenly spread across the economic deciles with the fewest bei...

 Statistics New Zealand compiled a report called Housing in Aotearoa 2020 which is full of interesting data. This graph painted a slightly d...