According to a 2010 OECD study New Zealand working families pay 28 percent of their net income on childcare - the fourth highest relative costs in the OECD. Reducing those costs is a direct way of improving incomes for many families. The Green Party in Government will improve the quality of ECE by providing $32 million restore funding to services with 100 percent qualified staff.
supportive of direct government control of the economy, e.g. price control or minimum wages