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The good news to this disturbing figure is that a strategy is in place to address some serious problems, including an end to child poverty by 2030.
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Jacinda Ardern on the toughness of Australian politics, her ambitious policy plans, and the demands of being a young high-profile female leader that everyone wants to know about.
Childhood adversity doesn’t just affect our choices – according to new research, it also weakens the body’s fundamental ability to stay healthy in old age.
Because some people find it difficult to comprehend…
Children looking after a family member are making decisions about their future in the context of their role, often limiting their options and stunting their ambitions
Only very low-income Americans who are working or looking for work are eligible for federal, time-limited welfare dollars. This restriction doesn’t always help them get back on their feet.
A rising generation of young people are growing up in peril.
Many children are living in low-income families that struggle to pay the rent to keep a roof over their heads. Unaffordable housing is fuelling childhood poverty, so where is the policy response?
Income poverty statistics tell us relatively little about why Australian children live in poverty, or how to alleviate it. But housing plays a critical part in the problem.
On the 20th anniversary of Bill Clinton’s promise to “end welfare as we know it,” a social work scholar asks why child poverty is still such a problem in the U.S. and what race has to do with it.
Families are falling deeper into poverty when school holidays come, just to feed their children.
MPs should listen to the House of Lords and to expert opinion, and retain the official child poverty measures.
Being poor doesn’t make you a bad parent but families need protective factors to counter the negative ones.
In his budget, George Osborne said that we are all in this together. A look at the evidence shows that we’re not.
With 17% of children living in poverty in the UK, the government wants to change the way it’s defined.
Robert Putnam’s new book aims to make the social inequality a core issue in the 2016 campaign: a member of his research team explains how.
Fifty years ago, Lyndon Johnson spoke of war on poverty and pursuit of a great society. He talked about investing in education and employment and about eliminating social exclusion that comes with poverty…
This year marks the 51st anniversary since Lyndon Johnson launched his War on Poverty and made poverty reduction the centerpiece of his Great Society domestic agenda. Whether we won this war, however…
Overcoming educational disadvantage is not easy. Even before they enter the school gates for the first time, a variety of factors including inheritance, social class, parenting style and family income…
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Director of the Roy McKenzie Centre for the Study of Families and Children, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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