Budget 2010: Helping Families Get Ahead

As we prepare for Budget 2010, it’s a good chance to look at what we’ve done over the past year.

In last year’s Budget, we protected New Zealanders from the sharpest edges of the recession by safeguarding their entitlements. We poured billions into infrastructure to unclog the arteries of growth. We pushed resources to the frontline across the public service. And we took steps to keep the country’s debt under control.

New Zealand has weathered the worst of the global crisis. We have emerged from recession more quickly than most of our trading partners. A sign of that is the recent fall in the unemployment rate from 7.1 per cent to 6 per cent.

But we have a lot more work to do. National’s focus is on achieving faster economic growth. Budget 2010 will take some important steps towards that goal.

Get Budget information here: http://www.national.org.nz/budget/