Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Poverty

  • Campbell Live on poverty and school lunches

    We said farewell to Campbell Live last week, and from tonight TV3 is delighting our screens with Road Cops in its place, presumably until their shiny new co-hosted totally-what-the-audience-wants current affairs…

  • QOTD: The real theme of the Budget

    Wonderfully summed up by my comrade mickysavage over at The Standard: As the dust settles a few themes are appearing. National agrees that child poverty is an urgent issue but…

  • 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…

  • 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…