Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Welfare

  • Another spotlight on National’s gross mistreatment of beneficiaries

    It’s the old National Party lie, isn’t it? As reported in The Press: New Zealand’s social welfare system “dehumanises” people in need, with beneficiaries described as “scared stiff” of Work…

  • Back to the future: Brian Easton on benefit abatement rates

    Hat-tip to Sarah Wilson on Twitter for linking to this 1995 piece by Brian Easton on the “unintended” consequences of abating people’s benefits when they get part-time work – to…

  • Paid parental leave back on the cards?

    I suspect the media are going to get a lot of mileage out of “the Winston effect” over the rest of this parliamentary term – but you can’t blame them,…

  • On poverty, parenting, and Paula

    Of course it would be Paula Bennett, the government’s most infamous ladder-retracting Minister, getting headlines about irresponsible parenting being the real cause of children going to school with no lunches. “[Voting…

  • International (Working) Women’s Day

    It’s hard to know what to write on this International (Working) Women’s Day. The issues facing women living under patriarchy remain pretty much what they always are: there’s a basic…