one-lost-kitty: People in #poverty are told to just get a job; that punishments and broken safety ne
one-lost-kitty:People in #poverty are told to just get a job; that punishments and broken safety nets are “incentives”; that anyone who can’t get a job isn’t trying hard enough.Well #auspol, it’s all bullshit and here’s why: 181,000 job vacancies 738,900 people unemployed 1,095,975 people underemployed 2,990,300 people below the poverty line. The numbers don’t lie - we have a huge jobs deficit, our safety nets are broken, and a whole lot of people are suffering as a result. It’s time for our leaders to stop treating people in poverty as political punching bags, and start working with us to end this crisis. — Sources:ABS ‘Job Vacancies, Australia Nov 2016’ - http://abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/6354.0 ABS ‘Labour Force, Australia Feb 2017’ - http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/6202.0 ACOSS ‘Poverty in Australia 2016’ - http://www.acoss.org.au/poverty/ -- source link
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