‘Recipe for more crime’
Wellington reporter The Opposition has attacked the Government’s move to drop the Contract Work Scheme. National spokesmen yesterday - claimed - the result:would be a rising crime rate and higher occupancy in jails.. Sir Robert Muldoon said the solution to funding problems was better administration by the Labour Department, not a moratorium on new projects afid a study of replacement schemes to help unemployed gang members. “These people will now simply. ’ draw the dole without: working. That is a recipe l -for more crime, more work for the police and higher occupancy of the jails,” Sir Robert said. National’s employment spokesman, Mr Bill Birch, claimed the Government’s move was further proof it had no employment policy except to pay the dole. In spite of a continually rising jobless toll, Labour had dismantled successful programmes like P.E.P. and work skills training, Mr Birch said.
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Press, 14 January 1987, Page 1
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