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Why child poverty targets make no sense

Opinion: Income statistics based on surveys can't accurately measure what is happening in individual households.

Lindsay Mitchell
Fri, 09 Feb 2018

The Coalition government intends to set targets to reduce the proportion of children living in low-income homes, and impose them on future governments.

It's feel-good stuff from a fledgling prime minister who's made fighting child poverty her own personal crusade. It's also fraught, and probably

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Lindsay Mitchell
Fri, 09 Feb 2018
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