2016 Child Poverty Monitor Results

The 2016 Child Poverty Monitor results reveal no significant improvement for the lives of children in New Zealand experiencing the effects of poverty.

There are currently 28% of New Zealand’s children living in families where income is less than 60% of the median contemporary income after housing costs (AHC), and 155,000 children experiencing some form of material deprivation, while 8% of children suffer extreme material deprivation.

Refer www.cpag.org.nz; www.closingthegap.org.nz or www.pha.org.nz for comments.

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