’We need a system that treats people with respect’: Calls to wipe welfare debt
Beneficiaries owe the Government $2.4 billion nationally.
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'They're like gold': Appeal for donations of PJs and clothes
The Bald Angels are appealing for warm clothes to help keep kids warm this winter.
No power in some households, high prices in others
Our most vulnerable and cash-strapped NZers are paying around 15 per cent more for power.
Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: Why Muldoon had the right idea when it came to gangs
OPINION: But National's new policy sounds like Groundhog Day.
Debbie Ngarewa-Packer: When subject is crime, cue old blame and shame game
OPINION: National have not cited a single policy to reduce crime.
The silence of the wolves: Where's the response to the Greens' poverty plan?
Why such a deafening silence in the wake of the Greens' new tax policy?
Rob Campbell: Sickening how Kiwis react to poor Māori, Pasifika health outcomes
OPINION: Māori and Pasifika patients in our hospitals get worse treatment outcomes.
Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: Only luck has prevented more tragedies like Loafers Lodge
OPINION: Boarding houses were common in many New Zealand towns and cities after the war.
Editorial: A taxing question
Opinion: Our editorial on the diverging political viewpoints on taxation.
'No one's happy about this': Secondary teachers begin new round of industrial action
Students will be rostered home for the rest of the term.
Chlöe Swarbrick: If it’s the economy, it's not stupid to define what that means
OPINION: Who does the economy work for when it comes to housing?
Rugby star's challenge to New Zealanders: save money and the planet
Black Fern Portia Woodman-Wickliffe is on a mission to reduce food waste.
Debbie Ngarewa-Packer: Ending poverty requires serious Govt approach
Kaumatua need affordable housing and healthcare, and sufficient income.
Is Labour really soft on crime? The numbers reveal a surprising story
The Herald has analysed decades of data to see how crime has changed in Aotearoa.
MSD debt balloons to $2.4 billion, family debt rises 25 per cent in a year
Campaigner says Govt inquiry needed to reveal true extent of poverty in NZ.
Opinion: Poverty is a circumstance - not a character flaw
Opinion: "It’s a cycle. A trap. And one that is incredibly difficult to escape."
Only a third of boarding houses have sprinklers
Most buildings like Wellington's Loafers Lodge do not have sprinklers.
Inflation takes away gains from Labour’s Working for Families package
Inflation is eating away at people's benefits.
Opinion: We need to talk about young people and homelessness
What is more basic than food on the table, and a roof over your head?
Editorial: Poor suffer as the world churns
Opinion: Our editorial on the lasting effects of extreme weather on the poorest.
Opinion: Some home truths about poverty in NZ
Bill Capamagian: Help the deserving poor and stop pandering to the ratbags.
Peter Davis: A tale of two budgets
Opinion: New Zealand and the US face very different prospects in their Budget setting.
Local Focus: Meet the Nanas knitting for the Cool Kids
Knitting for Cool Kids Rotorua will be donating over 800 packs of hand knitted clothes.
Michael J Fox reveals unusual grocery habit
The "Back To The Future" star struggled to pay his bills.
Debt spiral: Record buy now pay later accounts in arrears
Centrix figures show more than 10 per cent of buy now pay later accounts in arrears.
Opinion: NZ fosters built-in poverty
Opinion: Social justice advocate shares some uncomfortable truths about hardship in NZ.
Cost of living: 300,000 more Kiwis worrying about money weekly
But it's the younger generation that are feeling most worried about money.
Housing, food security main issues for Northlanders as recession looms
Rising costs are set to add another $150 a week in expenses for households.
Hinemoa Elder's Super solution to child poverty
Opinion: A child and adolescent psychiatrist offers a simple solution.
Govt considered making child support ‘income’ for the child
It would have given parents more income and had a "greater impact" on child poverty.
Rising wait times for children's mental health assessments 'worrying'
'The need is way greater than the actual capacity to service that need'.
Max Rashbrooke: Verdict on this Govt’s child poverty action
OPINION: An economist measures the results so far and passes judgment.
Editorial: Indifference betrays our children
OPINION: Statistics on child poverty are evidence of NZ's failure.
Child poverty not improving, still 120,000 in material hardship
Statistics show gradual declines on most measures but campaigners say still too high.