The end of JobKeeper wasn't a blip. It might have cost nearly 100,000 jobs
- Written by Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
MultifacetedGirl/ShutterstockAt its peak, more than 3.8 million Australians were on JobKeeper — three in every ten Australian workers.
Adding in those workers already employed by government, it meant four in every ten received a paycheck that originated from government, more than in Russia.
Yet when JobKeeper ended at the end of March, it...
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