Using WINZ’s online “ check your eligibility” tool, I imagined myself as a solo mum with two kids, aged 4 and 5, living in Wellington, paying a (miraculous) $200 a week in rent. The thing is, you can’t argue with the numbers. There’s always something you’re doing wrong, some obvious area where you haven’t cut your standard of living down to the absolute bone. Of course the people who are already firmly stuck in the “55c and two minutes’ time!” mindset won’t be convinced by stories like the ones told in that report.
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With a prevailing opinion held by many that those living in poverty do so simply because they lack the initiative to free themselves from it, there is little impetus or pressure to address what is for many thousands of New Zealand families a desperate and deteriorating set of circumstances. The increasing long-term use of the Mission’s food bank is a growing concern.Īnd, whilst we have an understanding of why people experience financial hardship, there is little understanding of what stops people moving out of poverty.
Ten years ago people accessed food parcels when they experienced a crisis in their lives. Today, thousands of families rely on food banks as their regular source of food as money for food is considered to be discretionary spending by many.
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See, we need to crack down on them!Īn excellent response came from who linked to this report by Auckland City Mission about the realities of life for people living in economic poverty: Beneficiaries are spending YOUR TAXPAYER DOLLARS on booze and fags.
Poor people are just greedy and ungrateful. Poor people just aren’t trying hard enough. But we all know exactly what message the right are sending when they approvingly tweet this kind of diatribe: On her Facebook page, you can see Kaye trying to walk herself back out of the nasty, judgemental tone, claiming she was just supporting a brave mum who did a great job in trying circumstances. And making breakfast for yourself is, I understand, a very different situation to preparing it with even one child, much less two or three, all in need of waking, clothing, feeding, and getting out the door – even with two parents around to run things. Obviously you can’t buy milk in 100mL bottles or toast one piece at a time. It’s a truly heartless – and illogical – way to look at the question of why so many Kiwi kids are going to school hungry. Stephanie Rodgers 🌹 September 14, 2014 Hey could you explain where all these shops are where you can buy $1.39 of breakfast in single servings? And three Weet-Bix and milk with a sprinkling of sugar cost 55c and took two minutes … do we really want to accept that 55c and two minutes’ time is too high a threshold to expect for parents’ dedication to their children? I costed three healthy breakfasts: two free-range scrambled eggs on lightly buttered mixed grain toast with salt and pepper cost $1.39 and took five minutes to prepare quick-cook porridge with a banana and a sprinkling of brown sugar cost 94c and four minutes’ time. Yesterday Nikki Kaye approvingly re-posted a letter to the editor which illustrates the dishonesty, saying in part: One of the most dishonest arguments the right ever put forward on the subject of poverty is around one of the simplest things in life: a bowl of Weet-Bix.
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