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We need to plan for life after JobKeeper now. We need to make it portable

  • Written by: John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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As an emergency response to the potential mass unemployment created by the sudden lockdown, the Morrison government’s JobKeeper program has been reasonably successful.

An estimated 700 000 employers, accounting for 4.7 million workers have signed up.

On the other hand, the sign up of workers has been been about one million less...

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