A business offering $400 a day to people willing to plant trees can’t get staff.
Aged care workers are concerned about under-staffing.
But one in 10 people are on a benefit.
That does not compute.
A Taxpayers’ Union report found that benefit sanctions, the help-but hassle approach to welfare reduces poverty.
. . . If the Government wants to reduce child poverty, it should encourage the unemployed and single parents back into work and off welfare.
Our report advocates a help-but-hassle approach that nudges beneficiaries back into work, leaving more to spare for those in genuine need.
If the Government took this approach, it could afford to be more generous, within existing budgets. The difference is that the money would be more targeted to those who most need it. . .
Is it that simple?
That benefit numbers reduced when National took that approach suggests it is.
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