20 Feb 2025

No improvements on child poverty from year before last

From Checkpoint, 5:33 pm on 20 February 2025

Advocates for children are calling for urgent action as new data shows child poverty rates have stalled, and the government has missed all three of its targets. Stats NZ figures released this morning show hundreds of thousands of kids were living below the poverty line last year - and there was no improvement from the year before. Lauren Crimp reports.