This research was backed by some of our organisations that are doing the most at the front lines—including Barnados, the Manawatū Tenants Union, Monte Cecilia Housing Trust, Auckland Action Against Poverty, New Zealand Disability Advisory Trust, Auckland City Mission, Child Poverty Action Group, the Disabled Persons Assembly (New Zealand) Inc., FIRST Union, Save the Children, and many others. These organisations know the struggles that our communities are going through. In fact, people on the ground have been speaking to the media and to politicians for many years, explaining that we need permanent fixes to our income support system.