Abstract:The New Zealand public spoke and the pollsters listened: child poverty consistently ranks among the top concerns of New Zealanders (Levine, 2014). And the prime minister listened too. In September 2014, after securing a healthy election victory, he proclaimed that he was going to step in and tackle child poverty (Fox, 2014). The policy analysts in a range of government agencies were set a task: come up with a package for Budget 2015 that helps children in poverty, that doesn’t cost too much and that won’t r… Show more
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