{"id":34442,"date":"2021-07-27T11:13:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T02:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/27\/new-zealand-pandemic-policies-pushed-18000-children-into-poverty-study-shows"},"modified":"2021-07-27T11:13:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T02:13:23","slug":"new-zealand-pandemic-policies-pushed-18000-children-into-poverty-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34442","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand pandemic policies pushed 18,000 children into poverty, study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Report says 10% increase in child poverty hit M\u0101ori and Pasifika children hardest<\/p>\n<p>An additional 18,000 New Zealand children were pushed into poverty in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpag.org.nz\/assets\/CPAG_First_Year_of_Covid_Initial_outcomes_of_our_collective_care_for_low_income_children_in_Aotearoa_NZ.pdf\">according to new research<\/a>, despite child welfare being one of prime minister Jacinda Ardern\u2019s main concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The Child Poverty Action Group \u2013 a group focused on eliminating poverty \u2013 put much of the increased poverty, inequity, homelessness and food insecurity down to government neglect as it created its policies during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/27\/new-zealand-pandemic-policies-pushed-18000-children-into-poverty-study-shows\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report says 10% increase in child poverty hit M\u0101ori and Pasifika children hardestAn additional 18,000 New Zealand children were pushed into poverty in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to new research, despite child welfare being one o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"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":[41,1066,268,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-jacinda-ardern","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\/34442","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\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34443,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34442\/revisions\/34443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}