THE percentage of women and children living in poverty in the Alpine Shire and the North East remain at worrying rates.
According to the most recent data from the Victorian Council of Social Services, the percentage of children living in poverty in Alpine is 15.8 per cent, with Wangaratta at 16.6pc, Wodonga 16.5pc, Mansfield 15.9pc and Indigo 14.5pc.
For women the percentage living in poverty in Alp...
