It seems that there is no direct relationship between the level of benefits (or minimum wages for that manner) and the number of people unemployed. New Zealand benefit levels (and minimum wages) were much higher when unemployment was low from the period after .
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It s not nearly enough to actually support people into what we believe is their best lives. One of our most important resources in this country is our people and I think people who are receiving benefits in this country continue to feel like, Well is that what the government thinks people are worth .
Pao Stanley said the Government has presented it as a radical investment, but it was actually buildups . They re saying this is reversing the Mother of all Budgets and this is a radical investment but I think radical would have been livable incomes, radial would have been individualised benefits, radical would have been removing obligations and sanctions from the welfare system. I think this was an opportunity for them to do more and they didn t.