AGAINST THE CURRENT: unemployment

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NATIONAL RETURNS TO BENEFICIARY BASHING

With its polling numbers underwater, National has returned to beneficiary bashing in a desperate attempt to shore up its electoral support. ...

The Minister of S ocial Development Louise Upston wants to 'help' young people by denying them a benefi t. LOUISE UPSTON'S det...

The latest unemployment figures have again exposed the failure of neoliberalism, yet no alternative is being offered by Labour and support...

While Labour and the Green's might be critical of the coalition government's new sanctions regime for beneficiaries, the sanction fr...

The Minister for Social Development forgot an appointment this week. But, unlike beneficiaries, Louise Upston won't be facing any conseq...

Grant Robertson: Refuses to acknowledge benefit levels are too low. Has the Labour-led Government created a two-tier welfare system fo...

TOO OFTEN THE voices of beneficiaries are excluded from discussions on how society should be organised. In this new video, Accom...

While the media likes to focus on the use of drugs by workers, many of whom are in low paid and insecure jobs, not a lot is said is about ...

Prime Minister Bill English has smeared beneficiaries, claiming that many fail drug tests. He made the same claim in 2012. Again, he ha...

Britain's Channel 4 told the residents of James Turner Street in Birmingham that its new documentary would show the best of a working c...

Our young people are worth more than a few low paid and insecure jobs in Christchurch. If they can find a job, that is. IN THE 1930s ma...

The mainstream media is publicising unemployment figures that show the Key government in a good light, while ignoring other figures that ...

Talkback host Mike Hosking has been caught telling porkies again. In 2012 Newstalk ZB' s Mike Hosking declared that he thought tha...

The Living Wage Campaign is undermined by both high unemployment and a trade union hierarchy that has nothing to offer but rhetoric. One...

It seemed symbolic that the disastrous unemployment figures were released on the same day that New Zealand's third biggest constructio...

Last month the OECD released a report, Divided We Stand , that showed that New Zealand's income gap has grown faster than any other ...