by David Wrigley | Mar 7, 2024 | Opinion
David Seymour, who increasingly appears to be the tail joyfully wagging the dog of our new coalition government, has called for the school meals program to be scrapped. Christopher Luxon, dutifully padding along behind his coalition partner, has said that it must...
by Editor | Mar 6, 2024 | Opinion
The return on investing in universal school meals is clear. According to our new report, universal free school meals (breakfast and lunch for students regardless of income) have 2.5 to seven times the return in human health and economic benefits in comparable...
by Editor | Mar 6, 2024 | News
Food poverty has contributed to New Zealand’s poor performance in an international educational achievement test for 15-year-olds, reigniting calls for broader access to free healthy school lunches. “The 2022 PISA (Program for International Student Achievement)...
