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Unpacking JobSeeker
Follow The Money
English - July 22, 2020 00:51 - 25 minutes - 23 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsPolitics News Business Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The Morrison government announced it will cut the JobSeeker coronavirus supplement, which had lifted a whopping 425,000 people out of poverty. We talk to Matt Grudnoff, senior economist at the Australia Institute to understand the impact this cut will have on poverty rates, now that there are hundreds of thousands more unemployed people, as well as the impact on the wider economy. The Australia Institute // @theausinstituteHost: Ebony Bennett, deputy director of the Australia Institute // @ebony_bennettGuests: Matt Grudnoff, senior economist of the Australia Institute // @MattGrudnoffProducer: Jennifer Macey with help from Lucy Luo.Theme music: Jonathan McFeat from Pulse and Thrum.
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