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Speaker 1: F new numbers back home around those having trouble with work.

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Speaker 1: So in the past year there's been a twelve percent

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Speaker 1: increase in the number of people getting jobs seecret that's

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Speaker 1: twenty two thousand people size of ash Burton. If you

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Speaker 1: want an example, Associates Social Development Minister Penny Simmons is Will.

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Speaker 1: There's Penny morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Mike.

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Speaker 1: And the sad thing about this is the economists to

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Speaker 1: write it hasn't picked. There's more to come.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's right, and we knew that second numbers were

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Speaker 2: going to get worse before they got better. We knew

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Speaker 2: that when we set our target or reducing that by

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Speaker 2: fifty thousand, jomping numbers by twenty thirty and that's why

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Speaker 2: we've been so focused on growing the economy. And it

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Speaker 2: was great listening to talking to Todd great news over

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Speaker 2: the weekend that started talks on the Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement,

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Speaker 2: because it's that sort of really focused, great work that

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Speaker 2: Tom McKay has been doing that is helping our economy

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Speaker 2: because we need to grow our economy. We need to

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Speaker 2: grow jobs so that we can get people off the

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Speaker 2: job seeker benefits and into work and you know, most

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Speaker 2: people on the Job Seeker Benefit want to be working,

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Speaker 2: and so that's why it's really important that we're gearing

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Speaker 2: up the welfare system to make the most of forecast improvements.

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Speaker 2: And the economic growth is forecasted to improve over the year,

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Speaker 2: and we want to make sure that mESC is really

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Speaker 2: to go and individual individuals on the Job Seeker Benefit

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Speaker 2: are ready and ready to go as those jobs come online.

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Speaker 1: Because job secret you are meant to be job ready.

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Speaker 1: Do you have a detailed breakdown on skills in location?

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Speaker 1: In other words, do you have a lot of people

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Speaker 1: in the wrong part of the country or along people

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Speaker 1: with a lot of people with the wrong skills and

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Speaker 1: we need to retrain or not.

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Speaker 2: Yes, So it's variable across the country. It's lower in

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Speaker 2: the South Island and so the gross is occurring in

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Speaker 2: the South Island and on the back of the primary

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Speaker 2: sector and tourism come back, and so we know that

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Speaker 2: there are areas where it may be skill shortages sooner

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Speaker 2: than others, so we need to It's not an exact science,

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Speaker 2: and it's very difficult often to get particularly young ones

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Speaker 2: to move and and young people at twenty five are

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Speaker 2: disproportionately effect by being on the job seeker, high numbers

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Speaker 2: being on job seeker.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, OK, and you appreciate it very much, Pendry someons

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