Australia's treasurer is doing the rounds celebrating 5% unemployment... as if that's something to be proud of? That's celebrating a system in which hundreds of thousands of single parents, old people, and young people are locked out of paid work. Where eight people are forced to compete for every single job vacancy available in the private sector. It's nonsense. In fact, why do we tolerate unemployment at all? Further reading:
https://greenagenda.org.au/2018/09/universal-job-guarantee/
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/02/federal-job-guarantee-universal-basic-income-investment-jobs-unemployment/
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