Top economists back boosts to JobSeeker and social housing over tax cuts in pre-budget poll
- Written by Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-NDOverwhelmingly, Australia’s leading economists want the budget to boost social housing and the JobSeeker unemployment benefit rather than bring forward personal income tax cuts.
The 49 eminent economists who responded to Conversation-Economic Society of Australia pre-budget survey were asked to rate 13...