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Budget will help tackle poverty
Tomorrow's Budget will contain practical measures to tackle poverty, says Finance Minister Bill English.
Budget to focus on social housing
Income-related rental subsidies look set to be extended in tomorrow's Budget to tenants in community-owned housing.
Denis Browne: NZ needs to talk about food poverty
The number of hungry people seeking food at night in my diocese has doubled in the past two months, writes Bishop Denis Browne.
Special report: State of our children
New Zealand's infant mortality rate has fallen to 4.2 in the latest Statistics NZ figures for 2012.
Pop stars' mum on mission
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.
Susan St John: Let's have policies for all children
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."
Govt eyes WoF for rental housing
Minister says Housing NZ stock needs work before it can impose conditions on private landlords
Damien Grant: I'd rather a better phone than feed a hungry child
About 270,000 Kiwi children live in poverty, according to a report by the Children's Commissioner last month.
Tourist: We were conned
Tourists say a rogue operator promised them visits to farms, geyser parks and buffet dinners - but instead took them to free events.
New Zealand great place to draw in lottery of life
New Zealand has been ranked one of the world's best countries to be born in this year. Researchers named New Zealand the seventh most lucky nation in which to start life.
New Year Honours: Dame Wendy Pye
Dame Wendy Pye will turn 70 next year but is still getting up at 4.30am to field international calls, travelling across the world to expand her publishing business and "beating the drum" for children's literacy.
Desperate bid for better life
For more than three months he remained an unknown young African whose fatal decision to seek a better life in Europe ended with an 800m drop.
Tapu Misa: Christmas should be a time of hope for us all
A Christmas story from an associate, who was in a Salvation Army op shop when a family - mum, dad, and three children - stopped by to drop off a new bike.
Record queues for Christmas food
Fuelled by the highest rate of unemployment in 13 years, the queues snaking along the pavements outside the Auckland City Mission have nothing festive about them.
Editorial: Community trust good way to keep loan sharks at bay
Editorial: The Nga Tangata Microfinance Trust in South Auckland seems to be providing a less businesslike but no less welcome solution for some of the indebted poor in this country.
Catriona MacLennan: Loan plan start of something good
Catriona MacLennan writes: "The Government will be making a serious mistake and missing a major opportunity if it disregards one of the key recommendations of the Expert Advisory Group on Solutions to Child Poverty."
History disproves poverty mantra
The recent small surge in reports recounting child poverty in New Zealand make grim reading, writes Paul Moon, especially as so many of the conditions blighting children's lives can easily be remedied.
Editorial: Remedies for child poverty step in the right direction
Editorial: When the Children's Commissioner set up an "expert advisory group on solutions to child poverty" this year, many New Zealanders will have cheered.
Peter Calder: December cruellest month for poor
The noticeboards in the public area at the Hobson St headquarters of the Auckland City Mission make grim reading.
Govt urged to offer low-cost loans
Government-backed low-interest loans to undercut "loan sharks" could be on the cards in the wake of a pragmatic final report of an expert group on child poverty.
Group wants extra $10 a week for sole parents
More than 80,000 sole parents, caring for 133,000 children, would get an extra $10 a week under a proposal to tackle child poverty.
Downturn making kids sick
The Government is being urged to act now on child poverty rather than waiting for the economy to improve.
Downturn still making kids sick
The number of children admitted to hospital with conditions that can be related to poverty has declined, but experts warn about problems with children's health.