Are the National Government and Murray McCully guilty of corruption? The official verdict is now in, but not everyone agrees.

Are you angry about the widening gap between rich and poor? Or are you sceptical about the stats?

Art gallery owner Benji Hinch is trading free art for sanitary products so he can put together care packages for people living rough.

COMMENT: Kiwis encounter a steady stream of political messages that individuals, families and communities should "step up" and take responsibility for their problems.

COMMENT: Riding buses reminds your columnist of what he might have become had not a bit of genetic blessing come along and saved him.

COMMENT: We simply have to do better for children in NZ. Choosing not to - to count rodents because it is easier - is completely unacceptable.

Dame Tariana Turia has accused the Government of spending more money on locking people up than on combating poverty. The former Maori

Only two beggars on the streets of Hamilton are homeless, police survey shows.

Women's refuges, church agencies and other community groups will soon have to hand over their client details to the Government in

Auckland Council has pulled down a public art installation depicting homelessness because they thought the piece was a pile of trash.

Vegetarian cafe Revive will again donate leftover food to the Auckland City Mission.

Minister Anne Tolley says the UN Rights of the Child committee in Geneva asked her 250 questions but only one on child poverty.

Prime Minister John Key finds it remarkably hard to measure child poverty when so many other challenges are possible, says Toby Manhire.

Data shows students at underprivileged high schools are less likely to sit exams than those from wealthy families.

COMMENT: Hurimoana Dennis, chair of Te Puea Memorial Marae, looks back over the marae's efforts to help homeless people during the winter.

When Hannah and Jordan 'Pedro' Miller did their grocery shopping this week, they allowed themselves to splurge - on an extra can of tuna.

A brief liaison with a man she didn't know cost a young Auckland woman $28 a week off her benefit for two years.

Maori Party co-leader and Waiariki MP Te Ururoa Flavell says he is sick and tired of attending tangi of Maori who have died as a result

COMMENT: There are two NZs on display and each is as un-Kiwi as the other.

COMMENT: Never mind arguing about whether child poverty exists: what are we going to do?

More than half of New Zealand's 41,000 homeless people are now families with children, according to new Otago University research.

A family living in a South Auckland garage faces eviction in October because the landlord converted it into a flat without a council permit.

A stand-alone ministry that will replace Child, Youth and Family has been officially named as the Ministry for Vulnerable Children.

The Government has no idea how much money it lent to beneficiaries to stay in motels, the Ministry for Social Development has admitted.

How much would you spend to feed a family of four for a week? $150? $200? 300? For many New Zealand families, a food budget like that is a distant dream. So how do you feed a family on a wafer-thin budget? South Auckland charity “Feed a Family” shows us how it can be done.

Margaret Sampson from Edmonton Primary School talks about how families are coping with low incomes.

Manurewa MP Louisa Wall asked consumers to add pads and tampons to their shopping lists, in order to help young women who are unable to afford them.

COMMENT: We have the power to change our own lives and far better to live a life of hope and ambition than one of hopelessness and despair.

Teenagers from poor families have more psychological problems if they live in rich areas, a new study has found.