In 2016, the #SeamlessBoundaries program addressed a #labourshortage in Te Aroha by moving around 40 unemployed people from Kawerau, providing them with housing, mentoring, training and a job, with 95% success rate, improved quality of life and reduced #unemployment

In a time of increasing distance between townies & rural #NZ, often inflamed by political rhetoric, it's sad to see https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/131805911/national-promises-to-double-rse-worker-cap-ban-foreign-investment-in-farmtoforestry-conversions

#NZ has moved from planning and developing people to relying on #migration