{"id":6589,"date":"2020-05-19T09:21:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T09:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=6589"},"modified":"2020-05-19T09:21:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T09:21:14","slug":"greens-release-economic-recovery-plan-creating-76000-wa-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/05\/19\/greens-release-economic-recovery-plan-creating-76000-wa-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"GREENS RELEASE ECONOMIC RECOVERY PLAN CREATING 76,000 WA JOBS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Young people will be guaranteed a job, secure income, and free education under a new Greens recovery plan to build \u2018a better normal\u2019 and restart the economy after the coronavirus economic shock.
\nThe vision for a debt-financed recovery reaffirms the government\u2019s role in responding to the crisis, and rejects the austerity approaches offered by the Liberal and Labor parties, charting a course for a government-led recovery that extends Australia\u2019s social services, instead of slashing funding for education, healthcare, and the environment.
\nGreens Community Services Spokesperson Senator Rachel Siewert said \u201cWe have a unique opportunity here in WA to invest to recover.
\n\u201cWe can\u2019t cut our way out of this crisis. The government and big corporations are calling for more cuts – to company taxes, to public spending, to workers\u2019 rights – but that is a recipe for disaster.
\n\u201cOur Jobs and Income Guarantee offers people security and decent work while setting Australia up for the future.
\nFor older Australians, for those who haven\u2019t reached retirement age and are staring down their last years in the workforce without access to a job, the half a million jobs being created through our investment package will offer hope and pathways back to employment.
\n“We need to make sure we are looking after people as we come out of this pandemic, I can\u2019t see how anybody can think that it is okay to return the Jobseeker Payment to the old rate of $40 a day which will condemn unemployed Australians to poverty and will act as a barrier to employment.
\nAustralian Greens Youth and Disability spokesperson Senator Jordon Steele-John said young people are really struggling as a result of COVID-19.
\n\u201cHistory shows recessions disproportionately affect young people, with under-employment remaining persistently higher for years, even as the general population recovers.
\n\u201cWith the April 2020 ABS data showing that nearly 4 in 10 young people are now without a job or enough hours of work, it\u2019s clear that we need to place addressing the challenges we face now at the centre of all plans to build a future for all of us.\u201d
\nThe Invest to Recover plan is part of the Green New Deal approach.
\nKey elements of the plan will:<\/p>\n