#nzpol Monthly jobs rose this month – great! Except we have 36,734 fewer jobs than at the election. There are 17,573 fewer jobs than this time last year. Total wages have fallen 4% in real terms. If the current economic plan is working – its not working for working people. A 🧵
Knowing it's their deliberate policy makes it heart-breakingly worse. The CoC are puppets of the current US regime.
Since the election, we have lost 28,332 jobs in goods-producing industries & 9,621 jobs in services. For all of the talk of a primary industry boom, we have only put on 925 jobs - around a single job a day. In the 3 years before the election we created more than 300,000 new jobs.
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it's not working for the 17,500-odd people who lost their jobs, either.
