StatsNZ - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Sun, 16 Apr 2023 21:19:06 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg StatsNZ - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Stats show no change in child poverty https://cathnews.co.nz/2023/04/17/stats-show-no-change-in-child-poverty/ Mon, 17 Apr 2023 05:52:26 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=157638 There has been no real improvement to the proportion of our tamariki living in poverty according to the recently released 2021/22 Child Poverty Statistics for Aotearoa. About one in 10 children experience material hardship where their households cannot afford things like regular healthy food, doctors' visits or to pay their power bills on time, according Read more

Stats show no change in child poverty... Read more]]> There has been no real improvement to the proportion of our tamariki living in poverty according to the recently released 2021/22 Child Poverty Statistics for Aotearoa.

About one in 10 children experience material hardship where their households cannot afford things like regular healthy food, doctors' visits or to pay their power bills on time, according to the StatsNZ data.

The picture for Maori and Pasifika is much worse, according to the data, with one in five Maori children and one in four Pasifika children experiencing material hardship. Read more

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