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A budget-ready proposal that would prevent unemployment benefits falling off a cliff

  • Written by: John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
a budget-ready proposal that would prevent unemployment benefits falling off a cliff

The economic crises that have punctuated the 21st century, most notably the global financial crisis and the COVID-19 crisis, have led to a growing realisation that alternatives to our present system are possible and perhaps inevitable.

In particular, there has been an erosion of the belief that the economy is able to provide...

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