New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern today launched her re-election campaign promising a “laser-like” focus on boosting jobs and economic growth hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ardern told her supporters that when people ask, is this a COVID election, her answer is yes, it is.
In her first campaign speech, Ardern pledged a NZ$311 million scheme aimed at getting 40,000 Kiwis back in work, if her party wins the September 19th polls.
The funding will allow businesses a subsidy of on average NZ$7500, and up to NZ$22,000, to hire unemployed New Zealanders.
[Source: Reuters]
