Period poverty leads to rangatahi missing school
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
20 February 2020
Child Poverty Action Group welcomes Youth19 survey research results, and says the Government needs to do more...
Labour’s welfare policies welcome but silence on children disappointing
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
12 September 2020
The Child Poverty Action Group today warmly welcomed the Labour Party’s policies to reinstate the Training Incentive...
Latest jump in weekly benefit numbers highest since first lockdown
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
06 September 2021
The current lockdown has triggered the largest weekly increase in benefit recipient numbers since the first lockdown...
CPAG and AAAP Call for Extension of Covid Support for NZ’s Most Financially Vulnerable
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
02 September 2020
Incomes are scheduled to be cut by up to $63 a week for many of New Zealand’s...
Why Child Poverty Statistics Can Be Tricky
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
Child poverty stats can be tricky and they’re in the news a lot in the lead-up to the election;...
Bold policy changes needed urgently to shift stagnant child poverty rates
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
24 February 2022
New statistics out today show very limited progress towards lifting children out of poverty, three years on...
Anti-poverty groups to Labour: Election results mean no more excuses
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
20 October 2020
Child Poverty Action Group, ActionStation and Auckland Action Against Poverty are calling on the new government to...
Families need immediate cash boost to prepare for Omicron surge, not food banks, poverty...
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
21 February 2022
The Government must take immediate steps to help families prepare for the surge in Omicron infections by...
“Shocking, disappointing” child poverty statistics show incrementalism isn’t working
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
23 February 2021
Incrementalism isn’t working: Child Poverty Action Group says that’s the lesson from the latest child poverty statistics...
A delta health crisis thrives when it meets a crisis in housing and poverty
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
Ashley Bloomfield confirmed this week that many people affected by the current outbreak are living in transitional and emergency...
Upcoming financial support needs to be nationwide, ongoing and backdated to start of lockdown
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
12 October 2021
New financial support for low-income families could enhance public health success, slow down inequality and offer relief...
CPAG disappointed with Government’s continued refusal to extend crisis support
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
04 September 2020
Subtitle: New Zealand needs radical transformation to raise children’s wellbeing
4 September 2020 Immediate Release
Child Poverty Action Group
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