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Government sets poverty reduction targets

Author
NZ Newswire,
Publish Date
Tue, 27 Mar 2018, 5:40PM
Jacinda Ardern has today announced the targets to help meet their 10-year goal. (Photo / NZ Herald)
Jacinda Ardern has today announced the targets to help meet their 10-year goal. (Photo / NZ Herald)

Government sets poverty reduction targets

Author
NZ Newswire,
Publish Date
Tue, 27 Mar 2018, 5:40PM

The government has announced its three-year targets for reducing child poverty, which will lead up to its overall target of halving it in 10 years.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the three-year targets will help keep the government on track to meet its 10-year goal.

There are three measures used for child poverty - household income before housing costs, after housing costs, and material hardship.

The three-year targets under those measures are:

- On the before housing measure - reduce the proportion of children in low income households by 6 percentage points by 2020/21 - a reduction of around 70,000 children

- On the after housing costs measure - reduce the proportion of children in low income households by 4 percentage points by 2020/21 - a reduction of around 40,000 children

- On the material hardship measure - reduce the proportion of children in material hardship by 3 percentage points by 2020/21- a reduction of around 30,000 children.

- NZ Newswire

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