As I turned on to the corner of Hobson St, I froze. About 200 people were standing on the pavement. It was the queue to get into the City Mission.

The latest figures show nearly one quarter of our 1.1 million children under 18 live in households with very low incomes after housing costs.

Asian youngsters are now more likely to suffer overcrowding and poverty-related illnesses than European children, a report has found.

As a Melburnian born in NZ, I cannot leave readers misinformed after Dita de Boni's article "The yawning rich-poor Oz divide" (Nov 13).

A trip to the beach is among treasured items Barnados New Zealand wants to provide needy kids with this summer.

Certainly New Zealand offers a lot less than Australia in many ways, but at least we can still have the conversation about inequality, writes Dita De Boni.

Mukul Resort provides classes for employees, plus health care, portable water and a soccer academy for the local community.

The Prime Minister recently made two announcements which appear worlds away but are intrinsically linked: making child poverty his priority this term, and attracting skilled people to New Zealand to enable continued economic growth.

The number of billionaires has doubled since the start of the financial crisis, according to a report from anti-poverty campaigners.

Rarely does an economist's work capture the attention that Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century has.

The most notable item in the Government's third term agenda outlined to Parliament yesterday is an intention to hold "job fairs" in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane aimed at New Zealand....

Paul Brown wanted to be an architect but I wasn't artistic enough. I've rebelled against that (King's College stereotype) a bit. I'm a maverick I suppose.

Catriona MacLennan writes: Low family incomes and high rents are the two key sources of poverty for my legal clients. The third is huge debt associated with car purchases.

Five days of tinned vegetables, lean meals and no snacks are over for Petra Bagust's family who joined thousands of Kiwis voluntarily living below the poverty line this week.

New figures show 9 per cent of solo parents in Auckland had their benefits cut for travelling overseas, but advocates say they had good reasons to travel.

We are already paying for the offspring of poverty, writes Lucy Lawless. Hungry kids are sick kids - so feeding them in schools is a smart strategy.

He was about 13, coming towards me on the downtown footpath. I could see he intended to say something, so I prepared to tell him the time, or where the nearest public loo was.

Teacher Peter Lyons says he's finally learned a valuable lesson - life isn't fair, so he explains why he's decided to vote the right way this election.

Dr Harold Williams has long been featured by Guinness World Records as the world's greatest linguist. He spoke 58 languages.

As his hard-hitting TV series about New Zealand’s biggest challenges draws to a close, Nigel Latta reflects on what he knows now

In health, the election has become a bidding war focused on the new centre ground of free doctor visits.

Pinepine Savage holds proof in her own life that it is possible to turn around a town that everyone had written off.

New Zealand has retained its rank as one of the world's most developed countries.

Kiwi donors are sponsoring three African children - in Mt Roskill. The trio came here as refugees in '08 need the sponsorship because the family can't make ends meet.

Is poverty for life? A Treasury report suggests not, writes Brian Fallow. Only 24 per cent of those at the bottom decile in 2002 were there seven years later.

'Let's go and have a look around," is how my Dad announces a trip to a town whose main draws are a supermarket and an obese pigeon.

I'd just landed back in NZ after five "trip-of-a-lifetime" weeks at the Fifa World Cup, writes Diana Clement. If there's a lesson from Brazil, it's be happy.

100 low-income families were asked what they needed to get out of poverty. Here are their answers.