Child Poverty in New Zealand

Child poverty is a big and complicated problem facing New Zealand today. This degree is far more serious than the public's recognition, but this is a problem that can not be ignored. From micro-level personal reasons to macro-government participation, comprehensive factors lead to child's poverty. This is partly due to social construction and can be avoided. The result may affect individuals and affect the whole country.

First and foremost, there is news that the poverty rate of children has declined for the first time from 2000 to 2000. But this good news is accompanied by an important warning. The poverty rate of children of all other age groups is still much higher than the poverty rate. In 2013, 19.9% ​​of the children under the age of 18 (poor people were 4,462 dollars for a family of 4), 13.9% for groups aged 18 to 64, 9.5% for people aged 65 and older. It is encouraging to note that poverty eradication initiatives such as child tax deductions and income tax deductions helped lower the child poverty rate for the first time in 13 years, but it is clear that the long way to go is still long. Drastically reduce children's poverty

From 1990 to 2016, children were one of the poorest and most endangered population groups in the United States. In 1993 when 18% of children in the US lived in poverty, children's poverty reached the highest. Between 2000 and 2010, the poverty rate of children in the United States had been rising year by year, but in recent years there was a trend of decreasing to 18% in 2016.

UNICEF's new report on the welfare of children in 35 developed countries has discovered some shocking statistics on children's poverty. More than a fifth of American children are below the relative poverty line. This defines that UNICEF lives in households that are less than half the median income. Among the 35 countries surveyed, the United States was ranked 34th after Romania, ranked second from Europe and Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. The map above shows the relative importance of the data. Less than 10% of children in blue countries are below UNICEF's relative poverty line, and red countries are nearly 25%. Southern European countries that are most affected by the euro crisis have the lowest yield, but there are no lower countries than the US. The scores of former Soviet Union countries are also very poor. Scandinavian countries have the highest score. English-speaking countries tend to fall somewhere in the center