Stephanie Rodgers

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

Tag: beneficiaries

  • More meaningless numbers

    It’s that time of year when the Government trumpets the success of its welfare reforms. Look! they cry, benefit numbers are down! The repressive, labyrinthine, victim-blaming system works! I’ve written…

  • The focus on paid work

    We talk about paid work a lot in NZ politics. It’s the cure for any societal ill you care to name: poverty, mental illness, economic growth, domestic violence. But the…

  • 2014 in review – weetbix and elections

    I started Boots Theory on 1 February this year, and since then it’s seen nearly 71 posts (72 now!), 5,000 visitors, and 7,500 pageviews. Not a bad start for a…

  • Hiding the government’s failure on poverty

    Three weeks ago I snarked John Key’s sudden desire to take serious action on child poverty. Now, thanks to Radio New Zealand, we know that not only has Treasury been…