Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Poverty

  • Creepy behaviour from David Farrar

    It wasn’t at all surprising to me that David Farrar is scathing of students who have to seek hardship grants to pay their bills, categorising them as bludgers who “say yes to…

  • WANTED: new ideas on child poverty

    It’s great to see John Key taking a sudden interest in addressing child poverty in New Zealand. In Parliament in 2012, when Metiria Turei produced a graph showing how fast…

  • The cost of a bowl of Weet-Bix

    One of the most dishonest arguments the right ever put forward on the subject of poverty is around one of the simplest things in life: a bowl of Weet-Bix. Yesterday…

  • Raising the minimum wage

    Labour and the Greens have both committed to raising the minimum wage in government. During the last leaders’ debate I got a few tweets from people insisting that raising the…

  • How to build better beggars

    In the United States, the street beggars have great patter. Despite what South Park would have us believe, when you walk down the main street of a major city, you…