Researchers say strategy could ease post-pandemic poverty. universal basic income concept A basic income support system could lift half a million Australians above the poverty line, according to a new study , with a big proportion of that number older unemployed Australians.
The study’s lead author, Macquarie University senior economics lecturer Ben Spies-Butcher, told The New Daily that the JobSeeker initiative during the pandemic had loosened means testing of income support, but that we are now returning to a “stingy” system.
“The medium-term problem of high unemployment is also one of high under-employment and creating a secure income source now for […]
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