Time for significant infiltration into child poverty

Another year, a new document. I'm tired of hearing hundreds of thousands of Kiwi kids about the shame of poverty.

The number of children doing it tough year after year remains about the same: this year, the Child Poverty Monitor says it's 13 million suffering from material poverty, a staggering 148,000 without some of the basic needs of life.

Regardless of how posh your neighborhood is, you will see child poverty ar....