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Topic

Job Losses And Migration

7 items · 7 aliases · peaked week of 3 May 2026 · first seen 29 Apr 2026

A Labour Party release criticises the government's minimal minimum wage increase as inadequate amid soaring living costs, calling for stronger action and proposing policy measures to address economic hardship.

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Ginny Andersen mike-hosking-breakfast Pollies: National's Mark Mitchell and Labour's Ginny Andersen talk the handling of the fuel crisis and cost of living 5 May · 36s

What we would do is not to stand back and let record levels of unemployment and people go to Australia because there are no options here to stand back. And what this government says, they say it's not our job to give people or ensure that people are employed or make sure there's jobs. We just create the conditions for jobs. That's what they say. And we don't believe that. We believe that there is a clear role. That's why we have projects that are just finishing off. now like that shadow two-poist cycleway in Wellington the other one that Bishop Hope in recently around the base they're big infrastructure projects that keep the local economy going and keep people in work and

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newsroom-opinion Centre

population growth outpacing hiring

Hard labour – under the hood of the stalled New Zealand job market (in charts)

7 May

labour-party Left

economic decline driving people out of NZ

Release: Minimum wage won’t keep up with high cost of living

28 Apr

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