The Green Party’s hippies have their sandals in a twist over the idea of 'boot camps' for youth offenders -- not because they don’t work or because there are more important lessons for youngsters to learn -- but because the idea, says the Greens’s Kevin Hague, “unfairly discriminates against...

by Bruce Webb Politicians tasked with convincing democratic majorities that they should oppose minimum wage increases generally fall back on the economic argument that such increases simply lead to job losses. Often they go on to point out that these losses fall disproportionately on the young, the ...

We’re in recession, moving inexorably into depression.  Jobs are short, confidence is low, and prices and profits are falling. Yesterday’s announcement that “the minimum wageâ€� is going to be raised is an indication, however, that economic recovery is what politicians are eager to avoid....

No Waitangi post this morning. Instead, I’ll point you to what I write every year: One-Law-For-All Day, since all I’d need to change is the prediction about the protests. And point you to historian Paul Moon’s thoughtful piece from Wednesday’s Herald , which looks ahead to “a post-Waitangi...

My dad and mom live in a rural area of Massachusetts. My dad makes wooden bowls and they want to start their own small store in the area selling the bowls. They have no capital, and want to look into a small business grant. They both work extremely hard and make almost minimum wage, and so without t...

I work in a sh*t-hole on the verge of bankruptcy, and I love it. I’m currently employed by a locally owned sandwich shop/late night drunk food emporium. If it’s 2:30 in the morning, you’re hammered and you need a hot dog that’s been warming on rollers for three hours we’ve got you covered....

On the anniversary of the federal minimum wage, more attention should be paid to the working poor, who were hit especially hard by recent economic policies....

Just completely bonkers. I have kangaroos running loose in my top paddock. You don’t want to miss this. It’s streaming live on my cam: CraigsList:  Good morning CraigsList:  I can’t believe you make money off of this that justifies your time investment. CraigsList:  ...

One of the indulgences of election-watching is to attempt to interpret what the electorate - aggregating across millions of individual decisions - 'really meant' . In defeat, this usually turns out to be a desire for greater movement on the writer's own pet policies; in victory, proof that the elect...

Julia's forthright announcement regarding upcoming changes to the minimum wage: We are making the point that, of course, things are moving in our economy and moving in the international economy and we will take the opportunity after the May budget to further update the fair pay commission on macroec...