“We’re talking about families struggling on $400 to $500 a week, where over half of that – as it is for almost all beneficiaries – is on housing, the rest is left for essentials.”
Thanks to thecontrail.com for this link
From odt.co.nz
Figures in a new report suggest the number of children living in serious poverty is greater than the population of Dunedin.
The 2019 Child Poverty Monitor also shows that those living in areas of high deprivation are three times more likely than other children to be admitted to hospital.
Children’s Commissioner Andrew Becroft said the affected children were often going without shoes, healthy food or easy public transport access to doctors and dental care.
“We have 254,000 children living in households with less than half the median income after paying for their housing.”
He said big and bold changes were required to support the 148,000 children needing help.
Stats NZ says Dunedin’s population is a little over 130,000,
“I want to see family incomes dramatically raised by increasing benefits and making the minimum wage a…
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Sorry that, that is occuring in New Zealand. Thankyou for this enlightening article.
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Things are not good here in New Zealand, Gloria. Wages are really low, in a country where the cost of living is about the same as the US. It’s like a second world country. It’s heart breaking to see the number of children who go to school barefoot and without lunches. And our so-called progressive Labour-Green government is on this sickening austerity kick. Instead of fixing the broken health, education and welfare systems last year, they ran a surplus (which always has the effect of sucking money out of the economy).
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The oligarch and banker strategy in western societies anymore, is to push political parties as far to the right as possible if they cannot have outright corporate authoritarianism. So much for for weatern liberal democracy
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