THE percentage of women and children living in poverty in the Mansfield Shire and the North East remains worryingly high.
The latest data from the Victorian Council of Social Services shows 15.9 percent of children in the shire of more than 10,000 people are living in poverty, compared with 16.6 percent in Wangaratta Shire, 16.5 percent in Wodonga, 15.8 per cent in Alpine and 14.5 per cent in Ind...
