New Year is a time for predictions to be made by commentators bemusingly confident they can foretell what the year ahead will bring, and for last year’s predictions to be checked.
On her blog today, Lindsay Mitchell has gone back a bit further than January 2019 to check on a prediction she made in September 2017 that Jacinda Ardern would increase child poverty if she became Prime Minister.
So how has that turned out?
On 7 of 9 measures introduced under the Child Poverty Reduction Act, to June 2018 poverty had increased. That’s fairly out-dated data now and not a particularly useful measuring stick.
But also now known is that children in benefit dependent households rose between June 2018 and 2019.
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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