The International Monetary Fund stated that over the next two years Australias unemployment rate will remain well over 6%, giving Australia the second highest rate of Unemployed in the Asia-Pacific region (below the Philippines). And yet the Federal government still thinks bashing the unemployed and other Centrelink recipients is a good idea! Why not try and increase the number job vacancies instead? Despite there being over 750,000 unemployed people (and around 950,000 under-employed), today there is only around 145,000 job vacancies in Australia. This means that on average there are 10 job seekers applying for every job vacancy. Put another way, if every person who is considered unemployed today miraculously managed to get accepted into these 145,000 job vacancies, there will still be over 600,000 unemployed people left over! If the government is not able to increase the level of jobs availible, the AUU demands the government take responsibility for those it has failed to provide with steady work by (1) raising all rates of entitlement to a level above the poverty line, and (2) withdrawing all attacks and cuts to Australias welfare system. smh.au/federal-politics/political-news/australias-jobless-rate-to-be-secondworst-in-asiapacific-region-imf-20141008-10rnq9.html
Posted on: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 07:37:41 +0000
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