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19 Dec 2005
Read coverage of this month's Child Poverty conference, held in Melbourne by the Brotherhood of St Laurence. International speakers included CPAG UK's Kate Green.
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14 Dec 2005
Link to Radio NZ article on poverty in schools; Tapu Misa says inequality is the real evil at the heart of hardship - and Sue Bradford says govt need to tackle the causes of child poverty.
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28 Nov 2005
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) has won confirmation of its right to bring legal action against the Government over discriminatory family assistance policies. (see also the Campaigns section of this website)
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9 Nov 2005
The government has confirmed it will extend its Working for Families package, and subsidies for childcare. This is welcome, as the move recognises the greater costs faced by parents compared with other taxpayers. But CPAG says it is misleading for the Governor General to claim that the change "will mean tax relief for every low and middle income family with children in New Zealand." In fact 250,000 of our poorest kids will get nothing from the tax changes.
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7 Nov 2005
Child Poverty Action Group is deeply saddened at the news of the death of Green Party co-leader Rod Donald.
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9 Sep 2005
The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) says reintroduction of market rentals for state housing would hit poor families hardest. CPAG invites Dr. Brash to take a crash course on the reality for poor families in New Zealand.
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24 Aug 2005
The poorest children have been quite invisible in both Labour and Nationalâs tax packages. If there is so much extra money to spend why have they both chosen to exclude the worst-off? CPAG deplores the lack of recognition of child poverty.
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19 Aug 2005
Neglect of poorest kids means foodbank use is no mystery, say child advocates. In the wake of a Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) report showing increasing use of foodbanks and their impact on children, National Party spokeswoman Judith Collins says she can't understand why child poverty exists in New Zealand, "in this day and age." CPAG says extensive research shows why it does.
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15 Aug 2005
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)'s latest report, "Hard to Swallow: Foodbank Use in New Zealand," presents a picture of widespread food insecurity (where food runs out sometimes or often) in our food-producing nation. However the report says an adequate, nutritious diet can reverse most of the harm this causes to children's health and development. Quality breakfast programmes in decile one to three schools are the best way to start addressing huge urgent need, it argues.
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1 Aug 2005
CPAG supports the idea that people should work if there is appropriate work available, but warns that children are the most vulnerable when benefits are cut because of failure to meet work-for-the-dole requirements.
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1 Aug 2005
Mike O'Brien's new working paper "Workfare: Not fair for kids?" was launched at the Trades Hall in Auckland on August 1st.
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22 Jul 2005
CPAG applauds trends showing a reduction in child poverty and improvement in a range of other important data affecting children and families. However the group points out that there is still a long way to go.
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14 Jun 2005
Child Poverty Action Group held an MPs forum as part of its Annual General Meeting in Auckland last week, to put the spotlight on child poverty policy solutions this election year.
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20 May 2005
CPAG's post-Budget breakfast heard child poverty levels, recently estimated as among the developed world's bottom four, will continue to be unacceptable for a comparatively rich country like New Zealand.
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13 Apr 2005
Today sees a heartening reversal of the neglect of children's income needs in the last two decades, says Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG).
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1 Mar 2005
A Unicef report released in March shows NZ had the fourth highest child poverty rate in the OECD behind Mexico, USA and Italy in 2000.
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28 Jan 2005
CPAG has hit out at the welfare policies announced by Don Brash at Orewa last week, saying they are tried and true failures which would only worsen child poverty
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