{"id":24469,"date":"2020-11-05T10:55:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T01:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/05\/jacinda-ardern-must-use-her-mandate-to-tackle-child-poverty-in-new-zealand"},"modified":"2020-11-05T10:55:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T01:55:34","slug":"jacinda-ardern-must-use-her-mandate-to-tackle-child-poverty-max-rashbrooke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24469","title":{"rendered":"Jacinda Ardern must use her mandate to tackle child poverty | Max Rashbrooke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Covid has set back the PM\u2019s modest progress on childhood hardship, meaning greater policy ambition is needed <\/p>\n<p>As the New Zealand First party\u2019s vote share evaporated on election day, so too did Jacinda Ardern\u2019s last excuse for not making more progress on child poverty, her signature issue.<\/p>\n<p>No longer able to blame inaction on her one-time conservative coalition partner, and possessing an absolute majority, the Labour leader now has a free hand on an issue dear to her heart. She may have labelled climate change her \u201cnuclear-free moment\u201d, referencing the 1980s Labour government\u2019s famous opposition to nuclear weapons, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/09\/ardern-government-fails-to-reduce-child-poverty-in-new-zealand\">it is child poverty reduction<\/a>, not climate change, that she has always taken as her \u201cextra\u201d portfolio.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/05\/jacinda-ardern-must-use-her-mandate-to-tackle-child-poverty-in-new-zealand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covid has set back the PM\u2019s modest progress on childhood hardship, meaning greater policy ambition is needed As the New Zealand First party\u2019s vote share evaporated on election day, so too did Jacinda Ardern\u2019s last excuse for not making more progress on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":705,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,268,56,933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24470,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24469\/revisions\/24470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}