“…Members of an expert group appointed by the Children’s Commissioner are floating the idea of a new law to halve child poverty in 10 years.
The group, appointed in March, hopes to develop multi-party agreement on an anti-poverty strategy which could be inspired by a Child Poverty Act supported by Britain’s three main political parties in 2010.
That act set a long-term target of halving the number of British children living in families with under 60 per cent of the median income from 21 per cent in 2010 to 10 per cent by 2020…”
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Experts eye British bid to halve child poverty – Politics – NZ Herald News.
