REASON FOR THIS BLOG

My motivation for writing this blog about ‘Poverty in New Zealand’ can be equally attributed to;

1. The Bryan Bruce television Documentary ‘Mind the Gap’,
2. This year is a government election year,
3. To unite all New Zealanders who live below the poverty line,
4. To motivate financially able New Zealanders to help improve the lifestyle of New Zealand's poor, lower and middle class people. 

My thanks to Bryan Bruce for making the television Documentary ‘Mind the Gap’, which was aired on TV 3 late last month. Bryan’s Facebook Page is https://www.facebook.com/www.redsky.tv at which he has a link from which you can watch his documentary;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__2EdGFdgTA

This year, Friday, February the 28th, 'The New Zealand Herald' published an online article written by Simon Collins titled,

'POVERTY DATA LEAPS AFTER OECD REQUEST'. Quote,

'Statisticians have discovered thousands more children and the elderly living in poverty than have been reported previously.  Revised figures have found an extra 20,000 children and about 32,500 more people 65 and over who rent their homes, who are classed as in poverty because they live in households earning below 60 per cent of the national median income after housing costs. The revisions lift the number of children in poverty from 265,000 to 285,000, or from 25 per cent to 27 per cent of all children.

The changes are even more dramatic for the country's 147,000 who did not own their own homes in last years census. Last year only 28 per cent of them, or about 41,000 people, were counted as being in poverty - a figure now revised to 50 per cent, or 73,500.' 

You can read Simon's article at the following link,

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11211099

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