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Letter No.47 27 September, 1996
INTERNATIONAL YEAR FOR THE ERADICATION OF POVERTYA New Zealand PerspectiveUNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY are twin issues for New Zealanders, because at the heart of each lies the long-term consequences of a loss of livelihood within the NZ economy. The coming month will see many observances of the United Nations International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. Next Thursday, October 3rd, has been set aside as New Zealand's National Day of Action on Poverty, while the International Day itself will be on October 17. In this special feature, the Jobs Letter gives an essential summary of several papers given to last month's National Foodbank Conference, which took the theme "The Eradication of Poverty in NZ"
The Jobs Letter summary of Bonnie Robinson's speech to the Foodbank Conference 1996 Bonnie Robinson is the Executive Officer of the New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services. Susan St John is a senior lecturer in economics at the University of Auckland. from the church leaders of the NZ Anglican, Baptist, Catholic, Methodist, Presbyterian Churches and the Salvation Army. Wellington's City Voice editor examines party policies effecting the income of the unemployed and other beneficiaries. ... from Rosemary McLeod's challenges of their work.
"Delays in children seeing a doctor have high and long term costs including to their health and education. Diseases of poverty are impairing the learning ability of up to a third of the children in the Porirua area... "
"The level of the welfare safety net is at or below ground level"
jobs.research@jobsletter.org.nz The Jobs Research Trust -- a not-for-profit Charitable Trust constituted in 1994 We publish The Jobs Letter
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