For a package in which there were really no surprises, the Labour-led Government's first budget exercise has had a stunning impact.
It was summed up in one headline: Labour's package expected to halve child poverty.
The prospect of one package nearly halving the number of kids in low-income households (using the standard OECD income measure) when it is fully implemented is the sort of outcome that may assuage resentment of those whose tax cuts have been cancelled to fund it.
It is not that National's package did nothing. If it had been implemented it was going to immediately lift 55,000 children out of poverty or 34 per cent on the same measure.
As soon as Labour's package takes effect, in July, it will lift 71,000 children out of poverty, or 44 per cent.