MARTIN DE RUYTERA display at a Child Poverty Action Group post-Budget breakfast at Stoke School, Nelson, provides a stark comparison. OPINION : Another year, another report. I’m tired of hearing about the curse of poverty for tens of thousands of Kiwi kids.
Year after year, the number of kids doing it tough remains roughly the same: this year, the Child Poverty Monitor says it’s 13 per cent suffering material hardship, a staggering 148,000 lacking some of life’s basic needs.
No matter how posh your neighbourhood is, if you look closely, you will see child poverty around you.They’re the families in Pak […]
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