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End child poverty

Metiria Turei MP
Metiria Turei MP
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Te Kahui Mana Ririki - media release

Every Child Counts - media release

Child Poverty Action Group - media release

National Distribution Union - media release

NZ Council of Trade Unions - media release

New Zealand Educational Institute - media release

Left Further Behind - Child Poverty Action Group report on how child outcomes have worsened in the last three years

He Ara Hou: The Pathway Forward - Every Child Counts report on the factors that keep Maori and Pasifika children trapped in poverty

Children's Social Health Monitor - annual monitoring of child health and wellbeing showing impact of poverty and recession

1000 days to get it right for every child - report commissioned by Every Child Counts on the effectiveness of current spending on children and the cost of not addressing child poverty

1/4 of New Zealand children are growing up in poverty.

One quarter of all New Zealand children are growing up in poverty.
That's about 270,000 kids.

They are our friends' children. They are our neighbours' children. They are the children of our colleagues and our acquaintances. They are our nieces and nephews, they are our mokopuna.

They are our children, and they deserve better.

We've developed four solutions to bring 100,000 children out of poverty by 2014.

  1. Make Working for Families work for every low-income family
  2. Provide better study support for sole parents and beneficiaries
  3. Raise the minimum wage to help working parents
  4. Make sure rental properties are warm and healthy for kids

→ Read about the full plan.


Recent news

  • Report shows Govt failing children
    17 Feb 2012 | Press Release
    A new report confirms the National Government is failing our children, and shows the urgent need for policies to end child poverty in New Zealand, the Green Party said today.
  • Holly Walker's maiden speech to the House
    15 Feb 2012 | Speech
    Ka titiro atu au ki Pukeatua e tu mai rā (I look to Pukeatua in the distance) Ka whakarongo ake au ki nga ripo o Te Awakairangi (And hear the swirls of Te Awakairangi (the Hutt River)) I tupu au i...
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