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Share My Super founder donates $10m for child poverty - how others can help
Baby Boomers who might not need their pension payments can make a difference.

Action group: GST-free produce a 'sad' saving for families
Removing GST won't help families enough, says the Child Poverty Action Group.

Cyclone Gabrielle: National’s Christopher Luxon slams criminals, opposes ‘flood tax’
Christopher Luxon has hit out at the Government for downplaying crime fears.

'Bleak picture': Shocking stats for Kiwi preschoolers linked to child poverty
Report showed a 'stark intersection between poverty and preventable childhood illness'.

Cost of living: Fruit pickers spend a day's pay to drive to work
Anti-poverty groups have seven big requests from Govt in this month's Budget.

'Things are grim': Soaring costs pushing more Kiwis into hardship - advocates
Changes to benefits and Working for Families suggested to soften blow of inflation.

Benefits need to be up to $165 higher a week, advocacy group says
Benefits will be lifted on Friday. But analysis shows families will still come up short.

'Very limited progress' on child poverty as key targets not met
"Not going backwards is not good enough for our tamariki."

'Escalation of poverty' in pandemic linked to jobs, living costs
'If we give up, say it's too hard, we are consigning a generation to the scrap heap.'

Child Poverty: Govt was on track to meet reduction targets ... before Covid-19
Govt needs to lift benefits and build more houses, Children's Commissioner says.

'Children cannot wait': Government slammed for 'unjustifiably slow' welfare reform
Child advocates say there is 'immediate, severe need, and children cannot wait'.

Brian Fallow: Help the kids, hit the landlords
It makes no sense that property investors can deduct all their interest costs.

Cecilia Robinson: Why 2023 must set the benchmark for child poverty
OPINION: Child poverty is our national disgrace, writes Cecilia Robinson.

Covid-19 predicted to make child poverty worse
Child poverty trends suggest a need for the "transformational" policies promised in 2017.

Election 2020: What's the plan for welfare and child poverty? Policies compared
Labour is offering the carrot, National the stick, and other parties want a new approach.

Milestone of 26 weeks' paid parental leave has been reached - so what's next?
Campaigners now want higher weekly payments and more flexibility for partners.

Kathryn's story: Child homicide, fraud, and an insurmountable debt
Kathryn died in September with a fraud conviction and a $117,000 debt hanging over her.

They say they're flatmates. Winz says otherwise
They were two friends sharing a flat. But Work and Income thought otherwise.

Beneficiaries penalised for falling in love
Jacinda Ardern is being asked to drop penalties for beneficiaries who start relationships.

Left behind: School survey finds gulf in kids' internet access at home
A survey has found a huge digital divide between schoolchildren in rich and poor areas.

Big schools vow to fight loss of schools' powers
School boards glad to lose "compliance" role so they can focus on students.