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published in New Zealand 29 January 2001
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CHILD POVERTY ACTION
POVERTY MEASURES
WORKING HOURS
ABBOTT�S STICK
UNEMPLOYMENT RATE
UK NO DEAL
ROBERT REICH
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* Our Diary of key events over the last few weeks. Drop the
Debt, Huntly power, the coming Slump, teacher shortages,
worker shortages in Queenstown, Terralink collapse and more
...
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl13801.htm
* Neil Mackay has been appointed chief executive of Industry
New Zealand and will oversee Jim Anderton�s �jobs machine�.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl13800.htm#mackay
* The Child Poverty Action Group says that half of all Pacific
Island children, a third of Maori and one in ten Pakeha children
�often or sometimes� run out of food because of a lack of
money.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl13800.htm#childpov
* The de-facto measure of poverty in New Zealand can be
found in the work of the New Zealand Poverty Measurement
Project.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl13800.htm#measurement
* Social Services Minister Steve Maharey says that the
government intends to chart the social wellbeing of the nation
alongside the development of the economy.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl13800.htm#maharey
* Ross Wilson, Anne Knowles, Steve Maharey and Jim
Anderton comment on NZ working hours in the light of the
French 35-hr working week.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl13800.htm#35hrs
* The incoming Australian Employment Minister, Tony Abbott,
believes the unemployed need to be treated with a stick rather
than a carrot.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl13800.htm#abbott
* Australia�s chief statistician believes the official measure of
employment does not reflect the true jobless rate. He is
pushing for his international colleagues to impose a more
realistic measure.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl13800.htm#joblessrate
* A study of Britain�s £5 billion �New Deal� programme finds
that as many as 80% of the jobs filled by the long-term
unemployed were likely to have been created anyway.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl13800.htm#newdeal
* Also in Britain, for the first time this year, more UK women
than men got first-class degrees.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl13800.htm#degrees
* Robert Reich looks again at the new economy in his new
book �The Future of Success�
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl13810.htm
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ISSN No. 1172-6695
edited by Vivian Hutchinson for the Jobs Research Trust
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