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CPAG Case Bad For NZ Children
Thursday, 5 June 2008, 11:08 am | Lindsay Mitchell
While the ACT Party does not support the Child Poverty Action Group's case against the government we acknowledge that many families with children are struggling. More >>
Unemployment Rises For Single Parent Families
Friday, 9 May 2008, 11:23 am | Lindsay Mitchell
The latest Household Labour Force Survey shows significant increases for unemployment among one parent families with dependent children. More >>
CPAG At Loggerheads With OECD
Tuesday, 29 April 2008, 9:29 am | Lindsay Mitchell
The latest Child Poverty Action Group report has slammed work-first policies as discriminating against children of beneficiaries and 'insufficient to eliminate child poverty'. More >>
Expectant Teenage Mothers Continue Smoking
Monday, 7 April 2008, 11:33 am | Lindsay Mitchell
New research published in The Medical Journal of Australia shows that forty three percent of Australia's teenage mothers smoke during pregnancy compared to eighteen percent of all mothers. More >>
Govts Told, Dads Matter
Monday, 18 February 2008, 10:53 am | Lindsay Mitchell
An extensive review of research encompassing the last twenty years has confirmed that fathers and father figures play an important role in raising well-adjusted and law-abiding children. Welfare commentator Lindsay Mitchell summarised the findings; More >>
Youth Crime and Casual Childbearing
Thursday, 31 January 2008, 10:30 am | Lindsay Mitchell
One of the reasons for the increasing ferocity of youth crime is the breakdown of the family and the dysfunction of relationships within what is left of the family. The most obvious changed aspect of today's families is the absent father. That alone ... More >>
DPB Numbers Rise In Many Centres
Thursday, 24 January 2008, 4:35 pm | Lindsay Mitchell
Figures just released by the Ministry of Social Development show that DPB numbers have risen in many centres over the past year. More >>
Putting Youth Statistics In Context
Friday, 11 January 2008, 9:43 am | Lindsay Mitchell
Earlier this week the Minister for Social Development, Ruth Dyson, was reported as being "unconcerned" about the large increase in young people on sickness and invalid benefits, saying the overall increase was "hardly a change at all". More >>
Third Of DPB Parents Not Interested In Work
Friday, 4 January 2008, 6:43 am | Lindsay Mitchell
"Most of the Work and Income's resources have been focussed on getting more amenable cases into work or training, Meanwhile nothing has been done to discourage the inflow of those mothers who will stay the longest in the system." More >>
Labour Only Scratching Surface Of Welfare Problem
Wednesday, 12 December 2007, 10:55 am | Lindsay Mitchell
Minister for Social Development Ruth Dyson has announced that the number of people on an unemployment benefit is at a 28 year low. She did not release a companion press statement announcing that the number of people on a sickness or invalid benefit is ... More >>
New Minister Rejects Call For Work-Testing
Monday, 3 December 2007, 9:57 am | Lindsay Mitchell
In an updated report , Babies and Bosses, the OECD has once again recommended New Zealand work-test sole parents on welfare. The new Minister for Social Development Ruth Dyson has continued in the tradition of past Labour Ministers and rejected this ... More >>
Teenage Birthrate Almost Ten-Fold in Poorest Areas
Tuesday, 27 November 2007, 12:36 am | Lindsay Mitchell
Released today by the Paediatric Society of New Zealand, "Monitoring the Health of New Zealand Children and Young People " reveals teenage birth rates that vary enormously across geographic and economic regions. More >>
Teenage Birthrate Continues To Rise
Monday, 19 November 2007, 3:30 pm | Lindsay Mitchell
Figures released today by Statistics New Zealand show the teenage birthrate has risen again to 30.2 births per 1,000 15-19 year-olds. More >>
Dyson Off To A Bad Start
Friday, 9 November 2007, 10:18 am | Lindsay Mitchell
The new Minister of Social Development and Employment, Ruth Dyson, today told Parliament that only 3.9 percent of the working-age population is reliant on a sickness or invalid's benefit. More >>
Stats Show DPB A Way Of Life
Monday, 15 October 2007, 2:04 pm | Lindsay Mitchell
Forty five percent of people on the DPB have been on it at least once before, a fifth have been on it twice before, nearly 5,000 have been on it three times before and a further 4,000 had been on it four or more times. More >>
Nelson Top Region For Violence Disclosure
Thursday, 11 October 2007, 2:44 pm | Lindsay Mitchell
In the financial year to June 2007 3,817 Work and Income clients disclosed family violence to their case managers. More >>
New Milestone In Benefits Reached
Wednesday, 10 October 2007, 10:23 am | Lindsay Mitchell
According to figures released by National MP, Judith Collins, August 2007 has seen the number of people on Invalid and Sickness benefits reach a new milestone. More >>
Thousands Exempted From Penalties
Tuesday, 9 October 2007, 9:40 am | Lindsay Mitchell
The government has been claiming a substantial drop in the number of single parents incurring a section 70A deduction from their benefit for refusing to name the father of their child and/or failing to apply for child support. More >>
National Return To Work-Testing - A Dud
Wednesday, 26 September 2007, 11:39 am | Lindsay Mitchell
National MP Judith Collins has signalled a return to DPB work-testing under a National government. DPB work-testing was removed by Labour in 2002. More >>
DPB for a Decade Or More
Tuesday, 25 September 2007, 2:39 pm | Lindsay Mitchell
National MP Judith Collins today released figures showing the Ministry of Social Development expects almost three quarters of today's teenage DPB beneficiaries to still be on a benefit in ten years time. More >>
