CPAG welcomes Working for Families increases on July 1
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) welcomes the long overdue increases to Working for Families (WFF) rates coming in this Sunday….
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CPAG’s Assoc Prof Mike O’Brien awarded honour
CPAG’s Assoc Prof Mike O’Brien named on Queen’s Birthday Honour list Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) warmly congratulates long-serving executive…
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Appointment of Prof Innes Asher to Welfare Advisory Group – Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) is delighted with today’s news that Professor Innes Asher, a long-standing member of the organisation,…
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The Future of Tax should have a focus on children – Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) is pleased that the Government has sought extensive outside viewpoints on its re-envisioning of taxation…
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CPAG welcomes new report on Children’s Rights
Child Poverty Action Group welcomes the new report from the Children’s Convention Monitoring Group (CCMG), and its timely release following…
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Child poverty targets realistic, but income needs urgent – Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) says the ten year targets set by the Government last night to reduce child poverty…
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Budget Policy shows some progress, but more work is needed – Child Poverty Action Group
Treasury’s Budget Policy Statement (BPS) 2018 indicates some real progress in terms of social wellbeing, but there are still outstanding…
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New poverty measures will provide a broader picture – CPAG
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) commends the Government for its new Child Poverty Reduction Bill. In particular, its comprehensive multi-tiered…
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Muddled numbers provide an opportunity for Government – Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) says that Treasury’s error in overestimatingthe numbers of children lifted out of poverty by both…
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What I want for Christmas…
Now is the time of the year when we send in requests to that mysterious red-garbed being at the north pole for ‘goodies’ of one sort or another. This is my belated wish-list of gifts. But not gifts for myself. These are gifts for the whole of New Zealand…