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Dr M. Claire Dale is Research Fellow with the Retirement Policy and Research Centre at the University of Auckland. Through her research and her involvement with Child Poverty Action Group, she became increasingly aware of high-cost debt as a major contributor to poverty among low-income people. She has written many of CPAG’s submissions on tax, health, welfare and financial sector reform, and since 2001 has been a contributing author to many of CPAG’s publications, most recently The further fraying of the welfare safety net (2017). In an effort to make a more practical contribution to the community, and to effect positive change, in 2010 she founded Ngā Tāngata Microfinance Trust in partnership with Kiwibank. With the contributions from the other directors and trustees, and talented and dedicated staff, Claire has seen some real improvement in the credit environment, but much more improvement is required before low-income families are safe from predatory lenders and their debt traps.

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