Covid-19: Pandemic forced more children into poverty - report - a podcast by RNZ

Covid-19 may have tipped 18,000 more children into poverty.
The Child Poverty Action Group says its modelling shows more wh?nau have been doing it tough since the nationwide lockdown - with M?ori and Pacific the hardest hit.
It says the government hasn't acted with enough urgency.
Social issues reporter Sarah Robson has the story.

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