Highlights key changes and identifies themes in the continued and systematic reduction of social welfare and income support for children in New Zealand since 2008.

This article considers the setting and adequacy of the level of the living wage in New Zealand and suggests changes in the way the rate is calculated.

This background paper explains why families in Aotearoa New Zealand need a much more robust system of tax credit supports, as well as higher wages. New Zealand was once a model for other countries to follow in regard to its egalitarianism. Today, there is high income and wealth inequality and an unacceptable level of family...