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South Auckland budget support officers say it's no surprise thousands of people are lining up to apply for jobs at supermarkets.
Countdown supermarket called for applicants for 150 jobs at its new Manukau store and 2000 people turned up to apply on Thursday.
Darryl Evans from Mangere Budgeting Services says it just highlights what he already knows is true, that South Aucklanders are desperate for work.
"There are still huge levels of need in certain pockets of New Zealand," he told TV ONE's Breakfast on Friday.
"South Aucklanders are desperate to get into the workforce," he says.
Evans told Breakfast he has noticed a 58% increase over the past year in the number of people coming to his group for advice and food parcels.
Some days his service sees over 35 families a day, also including highly skilled workers who find themselves unable to find work.
Evans says any suggestion by the government, or others, that the recession has ended, is wrong.
He says some clients get frustrated when the government suggest we are coming out of the recession.
"That's great for higher income workers in New Zealand, but those on low incomes and the unemployed, they are not seeing the improvement," he says.
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