Child poverty increasing through Covid choices
27 Jul 2021 13:45 PM
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Child Poverty Action Group is blaming Government neglect for an increase in poverty, inequity, homelessness and food insecurity for tamariki Māori and other children in the first year of Covid-19.
Researcher Janet McAllister says it was thanks to the collective efforts of iwi, hapū, community organisations, schools, whānau and families - and low-income children themselves - that the crisis of poverty was not even worse.
A new report by the group says an additional 18,000 children were probably pushed into poverty in the 12 months to March 2021, even without taking rising housing costs into account.