Child poverty rises while corporations gobble taxpayer funds

A timely call for action on child poverty

Introduction by Croakey: When infectious diseases specialists gathered for their annual scientific meeting in Canberra recently, a senior Indigenous medico Dr Louis Peachey urged them to prioritise action on child poverty, a problem that “shames and diminishes us all”. In […]

Child poverty rises while corporations gobble taxpayer funds

This as the Prime Minister lectures on marmite sandwiches… Annual report finds more NZ kids living in material hardship than last year A new government child poverty report shows more kids and young people are living in material hardship than last year. The annual report on the child and youth strategy looked at a range of child poverty measures and indicators between July 2023 and June 2024. It showed that 13.4 percent of people aged between 0 …