Child poverty in New Zealand
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)'s annual post-Budget breakfast heard on Friday that following this year’s Budget measures our child poverty levels, recently estimated as among the developed world’s bottom four, will continue to be unacceptable for a comparatively rich country like New Zealand.

Economist Susan St John says: Is it any wonder that despite a sustained economic boom the Auckland City Mission’s foodbank parcel numbers have doubled since 1998? CPAG considers that current levels of reliance on foodbanks like those run by ACM are totally unacceptable in a food-producing country like such as ours.

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Only a radical change in our priorities as a society will ensure that we can overcome this situation, that is ignored by well-off politicians and "decision makers" because it doesn't affect them.

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- posted by Victor @ 4:55 PM