JobKeeper and JobMaker have left too many young people on the dole queue – MENAFN.COM

  • Date: 07-Apr-2021
  • Source: MENAFN
  • Sector:Economy
  • Country:Middle East
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JobKeeper and JobMaker have left too many young people on the dole queue – MENAFN.COM

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Belinda Johnson









(MENAFN - The Conversation) Of the more than 870,000 Australians who lost their jobs in the first few months of the COVID-19 crisis, 332,200 – or 38% – were young Australians aged 15-24.

By June 2020, as the overall unemployment rate hit 7.4%, the youth unemployment rate spiked to 16.4%, with a further 19.7% underemployed (working fewer hours