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30 Dec 1999
A briefing paper to the Labour Government on issues relating to child poverty.
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30 Sep 1999
A backgrounder on the deteriorating health of our children by Dr Innes Asher, Paediatrician at the Starship Children's Hospital and Senior Lecturer in Paediatrics at the University of Auckland, who has worked in child health for 25 years.
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30 Aug 1999
A criticism of the current policies for the support of students. A large debt accumulation when the student's family already have few, or no assets can be a major disincentive. Already we see enrolment by Maori students at Auckland University falling. They were 7.5 % of all students in 1996 but only 6.7% in 1998. This is particularly concerning as participation by Maori in tertiary education is already low. The loans scheme helps perpetrate the insidious widening of the income distribution and the poverty that affects so many families in New Zealand today.
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30 Jun 1999
A study to determine any association between the socio-economic status of schools and the amount of donations they received from the Telecom New Zealand Ltd. School Connection programme.
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30 Jun 1999
This paper forms the first part of a two part backgrounder on Work and Income (WINZ). It documents the experiences of some beneficiaries with WINZ and Income Support. All quotes are the words of women parenting alone and on Domestic Purposes Benefits who contributed to a Massey University doctoral research project on housing completed by Sharon Milne in 1998 entitled âShifting Groundâ.
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