CHARLOTTE CURD/STUFFThere are 50,000 working families who are in poverty. Incredibly, working families are also more likely to be in poverty than retired people. OPINION: All children under three should get $200 a week, no questions asked.
We give our elderly an unconditional benefit, so why not our youngest citizens?
Currently the group with the highest rates of poverty in New Zealand is families with children.It depends how you measure it, but around 150,000 kids (one in eight) don’t have the essentials. In fact, half of families with a child under five years of age experience a period of poverty. Half. […]
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