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Investing in a resilient workforce
By Julian Wood
When the Government closed New Zealand’s borders in response to COVID-19, flaws in our labour market were exposed. Not only…
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Flint & Steel Volume 06 | Magazine Launch
“… on vocation, working, and living” “So what do you do?” These five words are the most predictable starting point of getting-to-know-you…
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Work = wellbeing
By Danielle van Dalen
“Choose a job you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.” This cliché was printed on a…
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Creating poverty-busting opportunites that work for people with disabilities
By Alex Penk
by Alex Penk and Danielle van Dalen This week there’s been a lot of coverage about employment opportunities for people…
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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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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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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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The making of resilient families
By Keiran Madden
While most of the stories behind families in poverty are tinged with despair, many are gilded with hope. Because poverty…
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Work matters
A Herald-DigiPoll released last week found that, in a survey of 750 voters, 51 percent thought that the in-work tax…
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