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Is Focusing on Child Poverty Effective? w/ Child Poverty Action Group

Is Focusing on Child Poverty Effective? w/ Child Poverty Action Group

Is Focusing on Child Poverty Effective? w/ Child Poverty Action Group Is Focusing on Child Poverty Effective? w/ Child Poverty Action Group, 19.41 MB
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.