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.
for limiting the welfare state, for example public funding for social services or social security, e.g. private care before state care