Lindsay Mitchell

In a publication called "Engaging All New Zealanders survey report: Children in New Zealand Communities 2022" commissioned by Ora...

There is a call from anti-poverty activists for the government to write off beneficiary debt which has grown to over 2.3 billion dollars. ...

Hot on the heels of media nonsense about Ardern's departure - for instance, it was driven by misogyny despite many of her harshest criti...

The latest benefit stats have just been released and while the Jobseeker numbers have declined, not so numbers for the other two main benef...

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is heading into the 2023 election campaign stating : “Our record is growing Māori housing. Our record is growi...

The benefit system was originally about providing secure income for those genuinely unable to work. That inability to work did not include c...

Appalling crime story after appalling crime story gets reported. But media rarely report on the big decline in New Zealand's prison pop...

  An ODT opinion piece recently parodied the rapid adoption of Māori names for government departments. It drew attention to the renaming of...

Am I the only person who has read MSD's latest  annual report ? It's a tedious business but surely a few checkers cast their eyes ov...

My first reaction to today's following NZ Herald  headline was incredulity: One big idea - what PM Jacinda Ardern would do if money was...

  New Report Measures Father Absence in NZ Thousands of New Zealand children struggle with having no father in their lives, and a new rep...

The Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister says : "We've lifted about 66,000 kids out of poverty in the past few years ......

MSD's  Annual Report  was released yesterday. From the CEO's forward: There is a lot we can reflect on and be proud of over the last...

The Supported Living Payment (SLP) replaced the Invalid's benefit. Officially : Supported Living Payment is for people who have, or care...

MSD's annual tome of poverty statistics was released last week. The NZ Initiative provides a good summary here. Eric Crampton wryly n...

 The following graph shows the number of MSD clients living in emergency housing up to 2021: Typically, around 92 percent of clients are ho...