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Poor hit by rising food prices

Friday, July 29th, 2011

The Salvation Army’s Consumer Price Survey of food prices at a South Auckland supermarket released on Wednesday showed increases for the year to June 2011 of 9.1 per cent for a single-parent family with two children and 8.2 per cent for a two-parent family with three children. This contrasts markedly with Statistics New Zealand’s all groups CPI rise of 5.3 per cent and food inflation of 7.5 per cent for the same period.

“The survey emphasises the fact that we, as a country, are failing to address the growing poverty problem,” said the Salvation Army’s Campbell Roberts.

The Salvation Army has been monitoring the cost of the same basket of food, cleaning and personal hygiene products from the same South Auckland supermarket every quarter since June 2008.

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The Salvation Army.org.nz
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Tags: Child Poverty, Food Prices, Poverty, Salvation Army

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