Saturday, June 04, 2016

Report summarized in NBR

The NBR has kindly run an op-ed summarizing my report as 'free' content over the long weekend:

"On the back of last week's budget, opposition politicians, academics and other advocates again expressed outrage at the incidence of child poverty. The culprits routinely blamed are unemployment, high housing costs and insufficient benefit payments.
But there is another factor – probably the most important – that is constantly overlooked. That is the rapid change in family structure.
In 1961, New Zealand experienced peak fertility. The average number of births per woman was 4.3. There were more babies born that year than ever before or ever since."

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

But there is another factor – probably the most important – that is constantly overlooked. That is the rapid change in family structure.

No Lindsay - you know what the real problem is and why family breakdown happens:

Welfare

We could literally fix these problems tomorrow simply by ending welfare