Comments on: Bold policy changes needed urgently to shift stagnant child poverty rates – CPAG https://thedailyblog.co.nz/bold-policy-changes-needed-urgently-to-shift-stagnant-child-poverty-rates-cpag/ Read the Other Side of the Story Sun, 27 Feb 2022 05:28:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Susan St John https://thedailyblog.co.nz/bold-policy-changes-needed-urgently-to-shift-stagnant-child-poverty-rates-cpag/#comment-197429 Sun, 27 Feb 2022 05:28:33 +0000 https://thedailyblog.co.nz/?p=149362#comment-197429 One of the biggest opportunities to hold the government to account for results on child poverty (3 year targets) has passed by with little comment as the media are distracted.

Jacinda Ardern said “Despite COVID-19 causing the greatest global economic downturn since the Great Depression the Government has delivered reductions in child poverty across all nine measures,” The government claimed there were “ 66,500 children being lifted out of poverty and the Government [was] meeting the first round of child poverty targets on two of the three primary measures.”

BUT after two years of pandemic, the social indicators such as housing stress, dramatically increased foodbank use, increasing debt, and excess demand for social services and charities indicate widespread low-income family distress. Worse can be expected with an Omicron surge in 2022.
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