Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Poverty

  • #IamMetiria is changing our politics and it’s about damn time

    Metiria Turei’s admission of misleading Work and Income when she was a solo mum may not change the result of the election, but must be a pivotal moment in the…

  • I don’t want to lift children out of poverty

    I’ve been thinking more about how we frame our messages this election year, and I’ve realised something pretty significant. I don’t want to lift children out of poverty. Because poverty…

  • 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…