Stephanie Rodgers

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

Tag: beneficiaries

  • Benefits, Budgets and b***s***

    Are they going to do it? At long last, isthe Labour government going to significantly increase base benefits and ensure that people actually have enough to live on, reversing the…

  • Jobs! What are they good for?

    Your brighter future, New Zealand: A Wellington employment training centre has had its Government contract abruptly pulled because it did not focus on placing people in the hospitality, aged care and call…

  • 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…

  • Anne Tolley says another unbelievably gross thing

    At this point, dear readers, I’m starting to ask myself if Anne Tolley is either a masterful piece of anti-Tory performance art, or sacrificing her own humanity in order to…

  • 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…