This standard talking point from the right is always supported with exactly zero data. If it is true that ‘benefit dependency’ has grown substantially, why not release some hard data backing this claim up? Why don’t they? I posit that, like usual, it’s just bullshit to drum up votes by hating on “the damn poors”.
“One of the outstanding legacies of this [Labour] government is going to be ‘how on Earth in a low unemployment environment, with worker shortages up and down this country, have you managed to put 60,000 more people on unemployment benefit’,” Luxon said.
I just went looking for data. The “how” appears to be COVID [PDF]. Page 4 shows a huge jump in 2020 followed by a reduction in future years.
Not to mention, like someone else mentioned, the Reserve Bank has spent the last couple of years actively and openly trying to reduce the number of jobs to cause a minor recession. Why do National pretend not to understand the basic components of the economy? (it must be feigned, as they have experts on their team).
I’ve been in and out of work for the past decade regardless of who is elected, so it’s definitely not a Labour Party problem. I’m stuck working shit distribution centre and warehousing jobs that I hate. I can never meet the required KPI so I get the hint and I resign. Having monthly performance reviews for a blue collar job is infuriating. I’m finally trying to exit the mess and re-train.
I would like to get CELTA at some point and just leave NZ for several years. Nothing will get better here. In school I wanted to study c++ programming but they just taught Microsoft Visual Basic, which is like, putting a button on the screen and clicking it, to make it say “the button is clicked”. Imagine where I’d be today if we didn’t have a third world education system and hopeless career advisors, which btw will exist under both National and Labour. I wish the Chinese would fire a missile and turn the Beehive into a crater.
Yes, because record low unemployment is a sign of benefit dependency.
This standard talking point from the right is always supported with exactly zero data. If it is true that ‘benefit dependency’ has grown substantially, why not release some hard data backing this claim up? Why don’t they? I posit that, like usual, it’s just bullshit to drum up votes by hating on “the damn poors”.
They do address this.
I just went looking for data. The “how” appears to be COVID [PDF]. Page 4 shows a huge jump in 2020 followed by a reduction in future years.
Not to mention, like someone else mentioned, the Reserve Bank has spent the last couple of years actively and openly trying to reduce the number of jobs to cause a minor recession. Why do National pretend not to understand the basic components of the economy? (it must be feigned, as they have experts on their team).
I’ve been in and out of work for the past decade regardless of who is elected, so it’s definitely not a Labour Party problem. I’m stuck working shit distribution centre and warehousing jobs that I hate. I can never meet the required KPI so I get the hint and I resign. Having monthly performance reviews for a blue collar job is infuriating. I’m finally trying to exit the mess and re-train.
I would like to get CELTA at some point and just leave NZ for several years. Nothing will get better here. In school I wanted to study c++ programming but they just taught Microsoft Visual Basic, which is like, putting a button on the screen and clicking it, to make it say “the button is clicked”. Imagine where I’d be today if we didn’t have a third world education system and hopeless career advisors, which btw will exist under both National and Labour. I wish the Chinese would fire a missile and turn the Beehive into a crater.