Latest from Poverty

’We need a system that treats people with respect’: Calls to wipe welfare debt

Beneficiaries owe the Government $2.4 billion nationally.

'They're like gold': Appeal for donations of PJs and clothes

The Bald Angels are appealing for warm clothes to help keep kids warm this winter.

No power in some households, high prices in others

Our most vulnerable and cash-strapped NZers are paying around 15 per cent more for power.

Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: Why Muldoon had the right idea when it came to gangs

OPINION: But National's new policy sounds like Groundhog Day.

Debbie Ngarewa-Packer: When subject is crime, cue old blame and shame game

OPINION: National have not cited a single policy to reduce crime.

The silence of the wolves: Where's the response to the Greens' poverty plan?

Why such a deafening silence in the wake of the Greens' new tax policy?

Rob Campbell: Sickening how Kiwis react to poor Māori, Pasifika health outcomes

OPINION: Māori and Pasifika patients in our hospitals get worse treatment outcomes.

Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: Only luck has prevented more tragedies like Loafers Lodge

OPINION: Boarding houses were common in many New Zealand towns and cities after the war.

Inflation takes away gains from Labour’s Working for Families package

Inflation is eating away at people's benefits.

Opinion: We need to talk about young people and homelessness

What is more basic than food on the table, and a roof over your head?

Editorial: Poor suffer as the world churns

Opinion: Our editorial on the lasting effects of extreme weather on the poorest.

Opinion: Some home truths about poverty in NZ

Bill Capamagian: Help the deserving poor and stop pandering to the ratbags.

Peter Davis: A tale of two budgets

Opinion: New Zealand and the US face very different prospects in their Budget setting.

Local Focus: Meet the Nanas knitting for the Cool Kids

Knitting for Cool Kids Rotorua will be donating over 800 packs of hand knitted clothes.

Michael J Fox reveals unusual grocery habit

The "Back To The Future" star struggled to pay his bills.

Debt spiral: Record buy now pay later accounts in arrears

Centrix figures show more than 10 per cent of buy now pay later accounts in arrears.