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Government should save jobs by “plugging gaps” in council budgets
By Julian Wood
Auckland Council is forecasting a $525 million dollar hole in its budget as a result of COVID-19. It’s not alone….
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Acknowledging Ability
By Danielle van Dalen
When we talk about poverty, we rarely consider people with disabilities as a group who are particularly at risk. But…
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Discussion Paper | Acknowledging Ability
By Danielle van Dalen
People who are living with a disability are vastly overrepresented in New Zealand’s poverty figures, and 74 percent of those…
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Read our column on The Spinoff and RNZ
By Alex Penk
This week, Alex Penk and Julian Wood’s column Triumph or disaster? A guide to the minimum wage increase featured on The…
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Not helping harms us
By Julian Wood
Last week the Hamilton Central Business Association enacted the “Your Help May Harm” campaign, aiming “to educate the public on the…
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Minimum wage opportunities
By Julian Wood
As a tool to help people who are struggling to get by, an increase to the minimum wage is a…
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Living Wage disputes
By Kieran Madden
Last week, the Government announced that the minimum wage will soon rise by 50 cents to $15.25/hour, higher than the…
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New report on Green Growth
Pure Advantage, a not-for-profit organisation led by group of New Zealand business leaders, is taking the Government to task over…
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Greening New Zealand’s growth
One of the many working groups that have been beavering away under the National-led Government has been a Green Growth…
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