Post by Kiwi Frontline on Oct 20, 2020 10:52:54 GMT 12
OVER A THIRD OF MAORI CHILDREN ON WELFARE BEFORE FIRST BIRTHDAY – Lindsay Mitchell
Around 36 percent of Maori children aged 0 were included in a benefit during the year ended July 2020. This is up from 33.7% in the year to July 2017. For non-Maori the proportion is 18% - up from 15.9% three years earlier.
These stats sit at the core of ongoing and disproportionate Maori disadvantage.
The answer isn't to increase benefit payment rates (which the new Labour government will come under enormous pressure to do.) It's to increase educational achievement and employment.
lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com/2020/10/over-third-of-maori-children-on-welfare.html
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Around 36 percent of Maori children aged 0 were included in a benefit during the year ended July 2020. This is up from 33.7% in the year to July 2017. For non-Maori the proportion is 18% - up from 15.9% three years earlier.
These stats sit at the core of ongoing and disproportionate Maori disadvantage.
The answer isn't to increase benefit payment rates (which the new Labour government will come under enormous pressure to do.) It's to increase educational achievement and employment.
lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com/2020/10/over-third-of-maori-children-on-welfare.html
Click image to enlarge
