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MEDIA RELEASE: Creating work opportunities for people with disabilities to get out of poverty
Thursday, 23 May In New Zealand people with disabilities earn just half of the average income of people without disabilities….
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Policy Paper | Creating Opportunity
By Danielle van Dalen
People with disabilities are overlooked in the national conversation on poverty and overrepresented in New Zealand’s poverty statistics. They face…
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The too hard basket: Breaking the link between disability and poverty
By Danielle van Dalen
Less than half of New Zealanders with disabilities are in paid employment. New research from the Maxim Institute suggests employers…
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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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Creating opportunities to contribute
By Danielle van Dalen
Last week New Zealander Robert Martin took up his position in Geneva as Spokesperson for Disabled People on the United…
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Valuing access to work
By Danielle van Dalen
Unemployment is costly. It costs the unemployed person and it costs society. For plenty of people with disabilities this cost…
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Removing the barriers
By Danielle van Dalen
I was 12 when my grandfather lost his eye and was declared officially blind. In the following months and years…
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Life consistent with our identity
By Jeremy Vargo
I love a good public disagreement; lately there seems to be a perishing lack of the good kind. To me…
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