Child poverty reduction stalls ahead of cost-of-living crisis

Monday, March 27th, 2023

The latest child poverty statistics show there was no statistically significant improvement in the year to June 2022.

The latest child poverty statistics show there was no statistically significant improvement in the year to June 2022, and campaigners fear the situation has only got worse since then.

Stats NZ on Thursday reported no little change between 2021 and 2022, though eight of the nine measures remained better than they were in 2018, when the data was first published. Read more

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