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Tuesday, 23 February 2021, 12:41 pm
Children’s advocacy collective Five to Thrive
is calling for immediate increases to income support, in the
wake of the release of the official annual Child Poverty
statistics by Stats NZ today.
Dr Claire
Achmad, General Manager Advocacy at Barnardos, says that the
statistics released today show that the increases already
made to income support by the Government are having some
positive impact, but much more is needed. The decreases
across the child poverty measures are not enough to mitigate
the impact that COVID-19 and the rising cost of housing are
having on children and families with the lowest ....

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