Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Poverty

3 January 2016

No shit: money alleviates poverty

It’s understandable why we’ve generally accepted the rightwing line that “you can’t just throw money at the problem” of poverty. It seems far too simple: people do not have enough…
18 October 2015

Mhairi Black: I’m tired of being told that pain and misery are necessary for a stronger economy

My first speech of the week post was also a Mhairi Black one, so perhaps I should just have a “Badass Things Mhairi Black Said This Week” tag … “I…
28 September 2015

Anne Tolley’s next abhorrent idea: forced sterilization of poor people

It’s going to be incredibly difficult not to Godwin the hell out of this one, people. Appearing on TVOne’s Q+A programme this morning, Social Development minister Anne Tolley would not…
21 September 2015

Poor suffering property investors

Jess McAllen has a great article in the Sunday Star-Times about the plight of renters and the should-be-criminal state of many rental properties in NZ. The rats have evolved. They…
17 September 2015

Anne Tolley desperate to screw down beneficiaries even further

So for 18 years, people who have been on stand-down periods from benefits – i.e. forced to stretch whatever savings or credit or charity they can access just in case…