Stephanie Rodgers

Feminist, leftie, green māmā from Te Whanganui-a-Tara

Category: Welfare

  • The only minimum wage is a living wage

    The New Zealand government announced an increase to the minimum wage today – up to $15.75 an hour from 1 April. On Breakfast TV, MP and former tobacco lobbyist Chris…

  • QOTD: Saziah Bashir on playing at poverty

    A great read at Pantograph Punch, on the problems with how we talk about poverty. Poverty doesn’t take breaks on the weekends, or holidays over Christmas, or a week in…

  • 10 things you could do instead of a sugar tax

    It’s sugar tax season again, when leftwing politicians hem and haw about increasing the costs of food they don’t like in order to coerce people to be healthier. Are you…

  • Defending social services and fighting the real enemy

    A really interesting article on the government’s proposed changes to child protection legislation at Re-Imagining Social Work, looking specifically at the political context and the especially damaging impacts they could…

  • Jobs! What are they good for?

    Your brighter future, New Zealand: A Wellington employment training centre has had its Government contract abruptly pulled because it did not focus on placing people in the hospitality, aged care and call…