{"id":626849,"date":"2026-10-11T00:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T00:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/626849\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T00:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T00:24:09","slug":"election-2026-green-party-guarantees-pathway-to-job-for-unemployed-aged-16-to-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/626849\/","title":{"rendered":"Election 2026: Green Party guarantees \u2018pathway\u2019 to job for unemployed aged 16 to 24"},"content":{"rendered":"

The party said it would fund the Mayors Taskforce for Jobs to help people find work in their local areas.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll around our country, infrastructure and nature need maintenance and renewal, and community services are short of the people they need. We will guarantee young people a job doing this important work,\u201d Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen there is so much real work to be done, it doesn\u2019t make sense that our young people are struggling to get by, losing hope after receiving hundreds of job rejections. Thanks to [Christopher] Luxon\u2019s Government, there aren\u2019t enough jobs for our young people,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Green Party co-leader Chl\u00f6e Swarbrick said a \u201cGreen Government will actually drive the economy, replacing Luxon\u2019s approach of cutting, sitting back and hoping for the best\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnemployment is the highest it has been in 11 years, and three times worse for young people than across the general population. That\u2019s a ticking time bomb the Government has the power to defuse,\u201d Swarbrick said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t punish people into ghost jobs. We can instead connect people out of work with work that so clearly needs to be done.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The party said it would fund the Mayors Taskforce for Jobs to help people find work in their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[41813,2246,2782,307730,18919,1558,15559,5903,2082,2518,113445,307729,305,3112,3234,111,43,139,69,4762,59742,312,61,176010,1533,4576],"class_list":["post-626849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-41813","tag-2246","tag-2782","tag-24yearolds","tag-aged","tag-been","tag-elected","tag-election","tag-for","tag-green","tag-guarantee","tag-guarantees","tag-have","tag-job","tag-months","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-party","tag-pathway","tag-says","tag-to","tag-unemployed","tag-will","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}