New Zealand’s dismal record on child poverty and the government’s challenge to turn it around

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New Zealand’s dismal record on child poverty and the government’s challenge to turn it around

The Conversation

The Conversation

Child poverty
Some children in New Zealand live in such hardship that they don’t have a good pair of shoes and have to put up with feeling cold

is a senior research fellow at the Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington

The latest statistics on childhood poverty in New Zealand suggest that, on some key measures, things are worse than previously estimated. About one