Opinion A basic income for hard times

Opinion A basic income for hard times

The government’s new income support could be strengthened by extending support to migrants, families with children, private tenants, and people on pension payments, says UNSW expert. The government’s new ‘welfare wage’ draws us into the unfamiliar terrain between our traditional income support system and the unemployment insurance common to other OECD nations, a UNSW expert says. Image: Shutterstock In an emergency, governments improvise. Two new systems of income support have been announced in just over a week to keep us going as much of the economy shuts down.

On 30 March, the Government announced a $130 billion wage subsidy scheme […]

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