Stephanie Rodgers

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

Tag: social welfare

  • How we got here

    When I saw this article about the Takapuna Kathmandu store deliberately destroying clothing, sleeping bags and tents before disposing of them, I started thinking about how the hell we got…

  • Nicola Young’s scary “solution” to people begging in Wellington

    [Content note: dehumanizing language about homeless/poor people, classism] As we stand there are four candidates confirmed running for the mayoralty of Wellington – and one of them is Nicola Young,…

  • Make the bludgers pay their fair share

    Few things in this world make me eyeroll as strongly as the quibblers who jump up whenever you point out the discrepancy between the amount of money lost to benefit…

  • 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 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…