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….

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…