New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has said she didn't think she was "tough enough" for a life in politics, in a wide-ranging interview where she also discusses preparing for Covid-19 and how relations with the US have evolved.
Progressives have been hoping that Jacinda Ardern would address a worsening crisis in inequality and poverty, especially because a housing crisis and pandemic have been making life a misery for those at the bottom of society. On Thursday her government delivered a significant answer to this, with a big increase in the budget for welfare benefit rates. According to the finance minister Grant Robertson, after the new programme of increases is.
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