“One of the outstanding legacies of this [Labour] government is going to be ‘how on Earth in a low unemployment environment, with worker shortages up and down this country, have you managed to put 60,000 more people on unemployment benefit’,” Luxon said.
I just went looking for data. The “how” appears to be COVID [PDF]. Page 4 shows a huge jump in 2020 followed by a reduction in future years.
Not to mention, like someone else mentioned, the Reserve Bank has spent the last couple of years actively and openly trying to reduce the number of jobs to cause a minor recession. Why do National pretend not to understand the basic components of the economy? (it must be feigned, as they have experts on their team).
They do address this.
I just went looking for data. The “how” appears to be COVID [PDF]. Page 4 shows a huge jump in 2020 followed by a reduction in future years.
Not to mention, like someone else mentioned, the Reserve Bank has spent the last couple of years actively and openly trying to reduce the number of jobs to cause a minor recession. Why do National pretend not to understand the basic components of the economy? (it must be feigned, as they have experts on their team).