Is Focusing on Child Poverty Effective? w/ Child Poverty Action Group
Is Focusing on Child Poverty Effective? w/ Child Poverty Action Group
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
While Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has made tackling child poverty one of her main issues, measures of child poverty have largely remained stagnant since Labour entered government in 2017. Hanna spoke to Child Poverty Action Group spokesperson Janet McAllister about the construction of child poverty as a distinct category from poverty, and the extent to which it can be addressed in isolation.