Why New Zealand's government cannot ignore major welfare reform report
- Written by Michael Fletcher, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
One of the recommendations by a welfare advisory group was to raise benefit levels by up top 47%, but the government has rejected it, for now. from www.shutterstock.com, CC BY-ND
The Ardern coalition government’s immediate response to a comprehensive welfare report, released last week, has been widely panned as disappointing, even pathetic.
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