The Committee for the Economic Development of Australia says up to 550,000 people born in the coming decade face lives of poverty if the nation’s approach to tackling disadvantage does not change.
The Jobseeker payment leaves unemployed Australians below the poverty line and it’s time for that to change,according to social services groups and economists.
Tony Konjarski from Wollongong lost his casual job as a cleaner at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and is now one of more than 826,000 Australians who have been on unemployment benefits for more than 12 months.
Calls to increase JobSeeker,as a growing number of Victorians approach homelessness services citing financial stress as the main reason for seeking support.
Retailer’s decision to pay back JobKeeper money on the back of record profits has reignited calls for more transparency around the multibillion-dollar wage subsidy scheme.
The absence of support for low-income Australians during this phase of the pandemic is accelerating wealth inequality.
Hundreds of thousands of households are financially worse off during the latest coronavirus lockdowns than they were last year as consumer and business confidence plummets.
Job vacancies plummeted by more than 10 per cent during the first full month of lockdown in Sydney,with warnings unemployed people are being trapped in poverty.
How will you remember 2020? That will depend on many things,but I suspect mostly your social class.
The week-long shutdown in Victoria is going to feel like an eternity for the hundreds of thousands of Victorians who will lose shifts and pay this week.
The number of Australians with a job fell for the first time in six months in April,the first full month without JobKeeper,with a widening gap between Victoria and NSW.