{"id":53717,"date":"2023-03-23T14:49:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T05:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/23\/new-zealand-child-poverty-rate-remains-static-despite-ardern-era-push"},"modified":"2023-03-23T14:49:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T05:49:56","slug":"new-zealand-child-poverty-rate-remains-static-despite-ardern-era-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53717","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand child poverty rate remains static despite Ardern-era push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The then leader had made improving the lives of the poorest children a key plank of her agenda<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s child poverty rates have plateaued, despite government efforts and former leader Jacinda Ardern making it a central priority of her prime ministership.<\/p>\n<p>Reducing the country\u2019s stubborn child poverty rates has been a central commitment of the Labour government since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/oct\/25\/jacinda-ardern-takes-child-poverty-role-in-new-zealand-ministry\">Ardern ran on the issue in 2017<\/a>, creating a new minister for child poverty, introducing legislation to ensure child poverty data was measured and published yearly, and bringing in a series of additional financial support packages for low-income families.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/23\/new-zealand-child-poverty-rate-remains-static-despite-ardern-era-push\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The then leader had made improving the lives of the poorest children a key plank of her agendaNew Zealand\u2019s child poverty rates have plateaued, despite government efforts and former leader Jacinda Ardern making it a central priority of her prime minist&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"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":[41,268,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53717","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\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53718,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53717\/revisions\/53718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}