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Some thoughts on the NZ Initiative’s debate on graduates marrying each other

Opinion by Max Rashbrooke on August 11, 2016

  Last night the New Zealand initiative hosted a debate about whether the government should ban university graduates from marrying each other, as a way to reduce inequality. I’m not sure it was the most helpful way to approach inequality, as it’s an obviously ludicrous proposal. The affirmative team, from Victoria University, did a spirited…

The current welfare system: a failure of employment, a failure of wellbeing

Opinion by Max Rashbrooke on August 10, 2016

I’ve just been reading a Master’s thesis based around surveying and interviewing people who’ve recently come off benefits, and its conclusions are pretty bleak. It shows that, even on its own merits, the government’s much-touted drive to get people off benefits is a failure, as the majority of people who do so don’t end up…

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