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Latvia teeters on brink in spite of $14bn IMF rescue

<i>Fran O'Sullivan</i>: Key cannot ignore this damning report

NZ youth losing out in health, education, jobs

NZ has one of the highest school dropout rates, with the sixth-lowest high-school completion rate in the developed world, a report has found.

<i>Paul Holmes</i>: Yes he did - Obama gets hands dirty

<i>Kerre Woodham</i>: Giving some benefit of doubt

Migrants up against dual work woes in recession

Jobless Asians are barred from work in their native countries because of their NZ citizenship.

<i>John Armstrong:</i> At last, Key's Govt shows some spine

John Armstrong writes that the backbone displayed by Brownlee and Bennett will please the National traditionalists, but we'll have to watch it bend again in election year.

<i>Cartoon:</i> The week that was, part 1

<i>Susan St John:</i> Govt's sums on welfare savings don't quite add up

Susan St John, associate professor in the economics department of the University of Auckland Business School and spokeswoman for the Child Poverty Action Group, questions the results claimed for new rules on benefits.