Why child poverty targets make no sense
Opinion: Income statistics based on surveys can't accurately measure what is happening in individual households.
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The Coalition government intends to set targets to reduce the proportion of children living in low-income homes, and impose them on future governments.
It's feel-good stuff from a fledgling prime minister who's made fighting child poverty her own personal crusade. It's also fraught, and probably
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Lindsay Mitchell
Fri, 09 Feb 2018
Fri, 09 Feb 2018
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Why child poverty targets make no sense
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