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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

Charity s new kitchen creates opportunities for Christchurch s vulnerable

Jake Kenny05:00, May 05 2021 STACY SQUIRES/Stuff New Zealand Post’s commercial kitchen has been invaluable to the Christchurch City Mission’s catering service, which runs work experience cooking classes for the city’s most vulnerable people. If you can’t handle the heat, get a new kitchen. The Christchurch City Mission’s social enterprise, Thrive Catering, is relieved to have moved to a new state-of-the-art commercial kitchen as it continues to provide cooking classes and other essential lessons to Christchurch’s most vulnerable. Thrive offers work experience courses for City Mission clients who are trying to get back on their feet. They are given valuable cooking lessons and other life skills to better their prospects for the future, when the mission no longer provides direct support for them.

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