The cost of living crisis means bolder budget decisions are needed to lift more NZ children out of poverty
- Written by Kate C. Prickett, Director of the Roy McKenzie Centre for the Study of Families and Children, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington

Urgent and bold – transformative even – budget decisions are needed if we are to get serious about the cost of living crisis and what it means for families and children living in or on the edge of poverty.
Our supposedly resilient economy, with its low unemployment, has clearly missed the memo on high inflation, housing...