More than 888,000 people are living below the poverty line in NSW, with about one in six children affected and women worse off than men, new research has found.
The study, from the NSW Council of Social Service (NCOSS) and the University of Canberra's National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM), correlates to the most recent census data for the 2015/16 financial year.
It found more than 16 per cent of NSW children are living in poverty, while women make up 53.6 per cent of all people over the age of 15 living below the poverty line in NSW.
