{"id":44635,"date":"2022-05-19T11:23:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T02:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/19\/new-zealand-budget-2022-ardern-cost-of-living-storm-health-climate"},"modified":"2022-05-19T11:23:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T02:23:43","slug":"new-zealand-budget-2022-ardern-offers-1bn-in-sweeteners-to-tackle-cost-of-living-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44635","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand budget 2022: Ardern offers $1bn in sweeteners to tackle cost of living \u2018storm\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PM says budget, which includes major spending on climate and health care reform, aims to ensure long term \u2018economic and social security\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Weekly $27 cash payments, fuel discounts and half-price public transport are among the short-term sweeteners offered up by New Zealand\u2019s government in its latest budget, as it tries to juggle the cost-of-living crisis with big-ticket spending commitments, including $11.1bn of healthcare system reform and $2.9bn responding to the climate crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we know the current storm will pass, it is important we take the hard edges off,\u201d prime minister Jacinda Ardern said in remarks accompanying the budget\u2019s release.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/19\/new-zealand-budget-2022-ardern-cost-of-living-storm-health-climate\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM says budget, which includes major spending on climate and health care reform, aims to ensure long term \u2018economic and social security\u2019Weekly $27 cash payments, fuel discounts and half-price public transport are among the short-term sweeteners offered&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2188,"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":[41,56,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics","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\/44635","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\/2188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44636,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44635\/revisions\/44636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}