Open AccessHas Budget 2015 solved child poverty?
Author(s) -
Russell Wills
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
policy quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2324-1101
pISSN - 2324-1098
DOI - 10.26686/pq.v11i3.4544
Subject(s) - poverty , incentive , victory , prime minister , government (linguistics) , child poverty , work (physics) , political science , task (project management) , set (abstract data type) , public policy , economics , prime (order theory) , public economics , public administration , economic growth , politics , management , engineering , computer science , law , mechanical engineering , linguistics , philosophy , programming language , mathematics , combinatorics , microeconomics
The New Zealand public spoke and the pollsters listened: child poverty consistently ranks among the top concerns of New Zealanders (Levine, 2014). And the prime minister listened too. In September 2014, after securing a healthy election victory, he proclaimed that he was going to step in and tackle child poverty (Fox, 2014). The policy analysts in a range of government agencies were set a task: come up with a package for Budget 2015 that helps children in poverty, that doesn’t cost too much and that won’t reduce the incentive to work. This article will demonstrate that the policy analysts did the best they could with the brief they were given.