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In welfare, ‘fair share’ is no longer fair

Deputy Prime Minister Bill English has been in hot water for stating the obvious: Some unemployed young men “are pretty damned hopeless.” With special feature audio.

Fri, 22 Apr 2016

Deputy Prime Minister Bill English has been in hot water for stating the obvious: Some unemployed young men “are pretty damned hopeless.”

As a consequence, he says, the government has a permissive approach to immigration so employers can “fill that gap.”

We must import workers

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