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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Work matters

A Herald-DigiPoll released last week found that, in a survey of 750 voters, 51 percent thought that the in-work tax…