{"id":32348,"date":"2021-05-22T05:00:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T20:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/22\/jacinda-arderns-budget-made-progress-on-poverty-but-its-not-mission-accomplished"},"modified":"2021-05-22T05:00:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T20:00:42","slug":"new-zealands-budget-made-progress-on-poverty-but-its-not-mission-accomplished-yet-max-rashbrooke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32348","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand\u2019s budget made progress on poverty, but it\u2019s not mission accomplished yet | Max Rashbrooke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is only one way to really make a change in New Zealand is to raise the bottom more rapidly than the middle <\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, we close a chapter on our past.\u201d So said New Zealand prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, on Thursday, as she launched a budget that included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/20\/ardern-makes-good-on-child-poverty-promise-but-a-long-road-lies-ahead\">the largest increases to benefits since the 1940s<\/a>. But although she should be congratulated for finally taking concrete steps to attack poverty and inequality, there is a real danger of celebrating too soon.<\/p>\n<p>Child poverty is one of our much-lauded prime minister\u2019s signature issues, and she has committed herself to ambitious targets that require hardship rates to be cut by as much as two-thirds by 2028. If achieved, this would be an exceptional feat, a rapid reduction that would place New Zealand among the world\u2019s best performers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/22\/jacinda-arderns-budget-made-progress-on-poverty-but-its-not-mission-accomplished\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is only one way to really make a change in New Zealand is to raise the bottom more rapidly than the middle \u201cToday, we close a chapter on our past.\u201d So said New Zealand prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, on Thursday, as she launched a budget that inc&#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":[41,268,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32348","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=32348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32403,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32348\/revisions\/32403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}