Here is something to consider. Cameron Bagrie, ANZ National bank Chief Economist, predicts unemployment will jump from 3.4 to 5 percent (BTW some US states are already experiencing over 6 percent). That will push up dole numbers.
But it will also push up DPB numbers as families struggling to live on the unemployment benefit alone decide they would be better off financially, living apart (if not in actuality - on paper).
That is another reason why we badly need to turn the DPB back into temporary and discretionary emergency assistance only. A repeat of what happened during the eighties must be warded off.
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Lindsay - you are an artist. Do you know how many people claim the 'artist's dole' and are they counted as unemployed when calculating the numbers receiving UB?
Brian Smaller
Brian, They're aren't that many but I will do a post on it as I can.
On second thoughts I won't do a post as the figures are insignificant. Numbers are declining with 363 at June 2007. Broadly speaking PACE (Pathways to Arts and Cultural Employment) members still have jobseeker agreements but are given a little more 'leeway'. I don't know what the declining numbers signify; a success or a failure.
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