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...are more likely to live in poverty. According to Statistics New Zealand, in the year ended June 2020, 17.1 per cent of Maaori children lived in households with less than 50 per cent of the median equivalised disposable household income before housing costs are deducted, compared with 13.8 per cent for Aotearoa New Zealand overall.[footnoteRef:28] [28: Statistics New Zealand, describing household equivalised disposable income, stated ‘to account for differences in household sizes and composit...