We can also reduce the risk for employers taking on staff. We can help the unemployed make transitions between jobs, and we can make the unemployed aware of their obligations. But we will also need employers and the wider community to take up the challenge. Let s declare war on unemployment. Irrespective of colour, age, gender, or disability, we need everyone on the team.
Some people argue that the only reason people don t work is because the incentives are wrong.
But there are other reasons. Some people have been so damaged by their experiences and histories that they simply do not believe that there is a place for them in any team. They have been beaten brutalised and rejected. If we are to be a fast country we have to stop doing that to our children. New Zealand might be a great place to bring up children but as a society we are not making good use of that place.