Early investment: A key to reversing intergenerational disadvantage and inequity in Aotearoa New Zealand [Evidence Brief Summary]

Abstract

Since the late 1980s there has been a dramatic escalation in whānau and child poverty in Aotearoa New Zealand that has persisted to the present day. Children born into deprivation from the late 1980s now comprise a cohort of new parents whose children are at greater risk of experiencing a continued cycle of disadvantage.