The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has some stern words for Australian policy makers. In its latest Babies and Bosses report on work and family life they argue that too many Australian children are growing up in jobless, welfare reliant households with the biggest problem among single parent families. The OECD’s experts say that Australia needs to do more to move single parents off welfare and into work. According to their figures, in Sweden and Denmark around 80 per cent of sole parents are in paid work. But in Australia, the figure is only 50 per cent. This is a problem, they argue, because long-term welfare reliance is associated with child poverty, and poverty damages childhood development.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 08:53:12 +0000
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