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Unpacking JobSeeker

2020-07-22

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 //...