Just over half of voters support extending Working for Families in-work tax credits of at least $60 a week to beneficiaries.

We don't really see the street. Most of us don't even look. Kids look, as I'm about to find out, but we adults, most of us walk on by, our attention fixed on anything other than that dude over there

The idea that New Zealand has become one of the most unequal societies in the developed world is just not supported by the data, writes Brian Fallow.

Beau De Royce fears she could be forced to work on the streets if her sickness benefit is cut as part of a cull of welfare numbers.

When did this country become so mean? Did it begin in the 1980s, when greed became good and success became more about what you had than the sort of person you were?

About one in six Australians cannot afford to rent a home, with young families - especially single parents with children - among the worst affected, new reports show.

Making begging an offence at law counters many years of positive action by Auckland City Council and will serve only to criminalise beggars. writes Cathy Casey.

A Whangarei grandmother has slammed Child, Youth and Family (CYF) for dumping her two young nephews at her doorstep without providing enough money to look after them.

The number of international child abduction cases before New Zealand courts is soaring, as the cost of court action forces desperate parents to go on the run.

Paul Little says the rage with which commentators reacted to the KickStart breakfast programme provided delectable examples of hysteria.

A food-in-schools programme that dramatically improved children's attendance and behaviour in South Auckland is moving to help Glen Innes children in the east of the city.

I'll never forget the first time Steve Farrelly crossed my path. To be fair, I was warned. "You're about to meet my client," said my husband. "He's, erm ... pretty unique."

Why stop at giving kids breakfast, when there are bigger issues - like getting them through the school gate, writes Dita De Boni

The KidsCan charity plans to use money from the child poverty plan announced this week to plug holes in health services.

Mana leader Hone Harawira will seek talks with the Maori Party about his Feed the Kids bill.

Income-related rental subsidies look set to be extended in tomorrow's Budget to tenants in community-owned housing.

Tomorrow's Budget will contain practical measures to tackle poverty, says Finance Minister Bill English.

The number of hungry people seeking food at night in my diocese has doubled in the past two months, writes Bishop Denis Browne.

Ben Affleck is planning to live on $1.50 a day.

New Zealand's infant mortality rate has fallen to 4.2 in the latest Statistics NZ figures for 2012.

Molly Bedingfield - mother to pop artists Daniel and Natasha - is the founder of the Global Angels Foundation; an international charity that aims to help communities living in extreme poverty and disadvantage.

Child poverty is not a party political issue; it is a moral and ethical issue, writes Susan St John. "It may have been possible some time ago to bury our heads in the sand and ignore the prevalence of child poverty in NZ."

Minister says Housing NZ stock needs work before it can impose conditions on private landlords

About 270,000 Kiwi children live in poverty, according to a report by the Children's Commissioner last month.