Dole numbers still rising

Written By: Marty G - Date published: - 10 comments
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While the official unemployment rate (determined by survey and then seasonally-adjusted) continues to jump around like mad, the dole numbers are telling a consistent story. And it’s not a good one. Every month this year has been worse than normal, either the monthly increase has been greater than normal or the monthly decrease has been less than normal.

In October, the number of Kiwis on the dole fell by 0.1%, that’s compared to a 1.1% fall last October and an average 3.1% drop each October under Labour. This October there were 4,800 more people on the dole than last October. Didn’t you say we were coming out of the recession strongly, Mr Key?

9 comments on “Dole numbers still rising”

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    “Every month this year has been worse than normal, either the monthly increase has been greater than normal or the monthly decrease has been less than normal.”

    Welcome to the new normal.

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    Here is an article from the BBC on recent plans to make longterm unemployed work for the benefit. Reading the first thirty odd comments i was struck with how familiar the dialogue was, and how in the coming months, it will be even more so

    also seems Nats aren’t the only ones making up numbers
    http://www.infowars.com/phantom-jobs
    (the 2nd link would not load it kept dropping the address)

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          was pasting it in correctly as normally do but it seemed to drop stuff off after saving and add other stuff in like speech quotation marks. Re-pasted three times with no luck. It is late however and I should be in bed.

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    Grey Power research in progress has found a relationship between unemployment and immigration numbers going back to 1991. This has cost the NZ economy billions to house and provide services as well as the benefits paid to our own people. We need to fix the cause not moan about the symptoms.

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