Child poverty bill a 'game-changer'
Children's Commissioner calls child poverty bill a "once-in-a-lifetime chance".
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Offer to help homeless rejected because the house was built before 2000.
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Rachel Rose: Climate change campaigner can do the maths
Bill McKibben is in NZ to talk about taking on business interests over climate change.
Pop-up restaurant serving sole food to the needy
Charitable pop-up restaurant offering footwear as well as food
Safe sleeping message urgent for Whanganui
The city continues to have highest rate in NZ of unexpected baby deaths.
Housing NZers biggest concern: survey
More than 40 per cent of Kiwis are concerned about housing, a new survey has found.
Ardern and Bridges seek consensus on child poverty
The Children's Commissioner welcomed the meeting, saying consensus was needed.
Hawkesby: The alarming rise of the working poor
COMMENT: People having to choose to pay rent over buying food is heartbreaking.
Poverty still disadvantaging too many kids
EDITORIAL: After years of reports and investigations, is anything actually changing?
Kids in poorest areas three times more likely to die - report
Medical conditions, unintentional injury, intentional injury and SUDI were analysed.
100k Kiwi kids living in severe poverty
Demand from families today is worse than during the recession - Salvation Army
Over 330 new families need help every week - Salvation Army
Poverty is reaching "crisis" levels in New Zealand.
Richard Prebble: Rosy report card gets overlooked
COMMENT: If reducing child poverty is the goal, why is the Govt closing charter schools?
'We're better than this' - Children's Commissioner
A new report shows Government the path to child wellbeing.
Kiwis respond to Taika Waititi's racism comments
Kiwis weigh in on Taika Waititi's racism comments.
Experts, economists, academics flocking to NZ to share wisdom on child well being
High levels of immigration are being touted as one aspect that keep wages low.
Terry Sarten: It's not where we are - it's how we get there
National MP's bill to change school decile system missing the point
PM sets 'ambitious' short-term child poverty goals
Jacinda Ardern warns a fix for 'ropy' data will see poverty numbers go up before dropping
12 Questions: Big-data expert Rhema Vaithianathan
Rhema Vaithianathan has hit the news with a study on Kiwi kids.
Film maker tackles brother's death: 'I'm glad I was pushed into doing it'
Jennifer Dann puts 12 questions to film maker Todd Karehana.
Tiki Taane's partner: 'Never mind the gangs'
Former P addict Rachel Axis speaks out about her past. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Jan Logie: 'We can all live free from violence'
Logie said new initiatives between the sector and Government are already underway.
Top chefs and business leaders feed 150 homeless
Top business leaders cook up three-course meal for homeless
Rotorua man chooses homelessness
Man chose to sleep rough from age 10 and says homelessness is part of a bigger picture.
Head count puts homelessness in the spotlight
It's hoped the head count will provide information in the quest to reduce homelessness.
Watch: Simon Bridges on marriage equality, cannabis... and hair products
National's leader swears he hasn't been using any hair product of late.
Kids going hungry because of back-to-school costs
Families forced to cut food budgets because of back-to-school costs.
Liam Dann: How good is this economy really?
OPINION: New Zealand's GDP has been growing for nine years now, but what does that mean?
Local Focus: Jamie Oliver-inspired eatery Happy Puku staffed by homeless
A new eatery will be staffed by former homeless people. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Plea for NZ to help save babies in Pacific
In New Zealand, 3 babies out of 1000 die in the first month. In Kiribati it's 23.
'Hand-to-mouth' Grammar needs donations
Four-fifths of schools now ask parents for "donations" ranging from $7 to $1225 a year.
Strong link between scabies and rheumatic fever
Poverty, ethnicity don't explain the link, researchers say.
Retired & renting - the trend isn't comforting
Fewer elderly people own their homes, and that's a recipe for poverty among the over-65s.