An excellent data driven report from the Salvation Army on key social indicators in NZ, for 2023.
The summary of their findings is:
Improving
- Child Poverty
- Youth Mental Health
- Employment
- Incomes
- Recidivism
- Alcohol abuse
- Illicit Drugs
No change
Getting worse
- Violence against children
- Youth offending
- Early childhood education participation
- Education achievment
- Teenage pregnancy
- Unemployment
- Income support
- Hardship and food security
- Housing availability
- Housing affordability
- Household housing debt
- Overall crime
- Violent crime
- Family violence
- Sentencing & Imprisonment
- Gambling Harm
- Problem Debt
Boy that 80% increase in state spending really paid off!
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