{"id":11936,"date":"2019-12-09T11:36:55","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T02:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/09\/ardern-government-fails-to-reduce-child-poverty-in-new-zealand"},"modified":"2019-12-09T11:36:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T02:36:55","slug":"ardern-government-fails-to-reduce-child-poverty-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11936","title":{"rendered":"Ardern government fails to reduce child poverty in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Report found 148,000 children live in homes experiencing material hardship, the same number as when Labour took power<\/p>\n<p>The Ardern government has failed to reduce child poverty in New Zealand, the children\u2019s commissioner says, despite the prime minister\u2019s pledge to make the country the best place in the world to be a child.<\/p>\n<p>The children\u2019s commissioner, Andrew Becroft, released the annual child poverty monitor on Monday which has found 148,000 children live in homes experiencing material hardship in six or more areas, including lack of access to basics such as warm clothing, health care and food. The figures are unchanged since the first report into child poverty in 2012.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/09\/ardern-government-fails-to-reduce-child-poverty-in-new-zealand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report found 148,000 children live in homes experiencing material hardship, the same number as when Labour took powerThe Ardern government has failed to reduce child poverty in New Zealand, the children\u2019s commissioner says, despite the prime minister\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11937,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11936\/revisions\/11937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}