{"id":44631,"date":"2022-05-19T13:39:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T04:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/19\/poorest-new-zealanders-lose-out-to-squeezed-middle-in-budget-inequality-experts-say"},"modified":"2022-05-19T13:39:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T04:39:36","slug":"poorest-new-zealanders-lose-out-to-squeezed-middle-in-budget-inequality-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44631","title":{"rendered":"Poorest New Zealanders lose out to \u2018squeezed middle\u2019 in budget, inequality experts say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government says child poverty is easing in all areas but those on the ground say the dial has barely shifted in the past five years<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The budget neglects poor New Zealanders in favour of the \u201csqueezed middle\u201d, inequality experts have said, despite promises by Jacinda Ardern\u2019s government to combat child poverty.<\/p>\n<p>Budget 2022 offered up a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/19\/new-zealand-budget-2022-ardern-cost-of-living-storm-health-climate\">swathe of short-term sweeteners<\/a> to soften the rising costs of living, including a $350 payment for people earning less than $70,000 but not on other benefits.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/19\/poorest-new-zealanders-lose-out-to-squeezed-middle-in-budget-inequality-experts-say\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government says child poverty is easing in all areas but those on the ground say the dial has barely shifted in the past five years The budget neglects poor New Zealanders in favour of the \u201csqueezed middle\u201d, inequality experts have said, despite promis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"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-44631","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\/44631","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\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44632,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44631\/revisions\/44632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}