{"id":628733,"date":"2026-10-12T22:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T22:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/628733\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T22:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T22:58:10","slug":"greens-promise-284000-jobs-with-6b-economic-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/628733\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens promise 284,000 jobs with $6b economic plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">The Green Party says it will create 284,000 jobs over four years as part of its nearly $6 billion economic development plan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Co-leader Chl\u00f6e Swarbrick said that was possible thanks to investment in transport, clean energy and &#8220;genuinely fixing the basics and building the future&#8221; &#8211; borrowing National&#8217;s campaign slogan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">&#8220;We will ensure Government investment and incentives drive us where we all want to go: higher wages, sustained research and innovation, better education, resilient infrastructure, healthy nature and a country we can be proud of.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Co-leader Marama Davidson said the country has no shortage of talent, creativity and hard work &#8220;whether it&#8217;s in a South Auckland garage or a lab in Otago&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">&#8220;What&#8217;s missing is the masterplan to turn it into good jobs, higher wages and a fairer economy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Green Party says it will create 284,000 jobs over four years as part of its nearly $6&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-628733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628733","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=628733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}