COVID-19 is predicted to make child poverty worse. Should NZ's next government make temporary safety nets permanent?
- Written by Kate C. Prickett, Director of the Roy McKenzie Centre for the Study of Families and Children, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
GettyImagesDespite the 2017 Labour-led government taking power with a mandate to fight Aotearoa New Zealand’s abysmally high child poverty rate, only incremental progress has been made.
The percentage of children living in poor households dropped only slightly, from 16.5% in June 2018 to 14.9% by June 2019.
That equates to approximately one...
