More effort needed over Kiwi kids in poverty

"A national effort is needed to lift up the roughly one-fifth of New Zealand children living in poverty, Barnados NZ said ahead of World Day for the Eradication of Poverty tomorrow.

The majority of poor people in New Zealand were children, with 230,000 or 22 per cent living in poverty, Barnados chief executive Murray Edridge said..."

Yes, more effort is needed.