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New World s Family2Family Foodbank Appeal underway to support communities and families in need

New World s Family2Family Foodbank Appeal underway to support communities and families in need
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Nothing to crow about in expanding underclass of dependence

Frankly, I would much prefer we had a welfare state that generously assisted short-term beneficiaries, tiding them over while they found their feet and re-entered the workforce. The travesty facing New Zealand is that entrenched long-term dependence is continuing to mushroom under this Government. When Jacinda Ardern was first sworn in as prime minister, 289,788 people, or 9.8 per cent of the working-age population, were receiving a main benefit. That has now jumped to 365,937 Kiwis, or 11.7 per cent of the working age population, according to the Ministry of Social Development’s (MSD) March-quarter figures. Strip away the Supported Living and Sole Parent benefit numbers and it’s the Jobseeker Support figures that are the most sobering. In December 2017, 123,000 people were receiving that unemployment payment, or 4.2 per cent of the working-age population. As of March, that has now jumped to 201,000, or 6.4 per cent of the working-age population, despite the staggering multi

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