Photo: RNZFigures in a new report suggest the number of children living in serious poverty is greater than the population of Dunedin. "We have 254,000 children living in households with less than half the median income after paying for their housing." The annual Child Poverty Monitor is the work of a partnership between the Office of the Children's Commissioner, Otago University's Child and Youth Epidemiology Service and the J R McKenzie Trust. Mr Becroft was pleased with Child Poverty Reduction legislation, the Child and Youth Wellbeing Strategy, and linking benefits to wages. He said the minimum wage going up in the next year was a great step.

Source: Otago Daily Times December 08, 2019 22:30 UTC