(Image via 드림포유 / Flickr) Bernie Sanders knows it — a Job Guarantee is the more effective, less costly answer to unemployment in Australia, writes Dr Steven Hail .
JUST OVER A MONTH ago, the Australian Greens made a commitment to introduce a universal basic income , should they form government.
Both major parties and most commentators jumped on the idea and it seemed an easy target.The Greens were promising to make a payment of over $20,000 a year to every Australian adult and it seemed they didn’t have a way to pay for such a policy.Let’s do the maths. […]
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