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.
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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/