Australia cut unemployment faster than predicted – why stop now?
If you told someone a year ago unemployment was about to dive below 5%, to just above 4%, they wouldn’t have believed you.
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Unemployment below 3% is possible – if Australia budgets for it
What’s the boldest thing the Morrison government could do in next month’s budget?
It would be to forecast an unemployment rate below 4% (a rate of three-point-something), then to pledge to go further, to two-point-something.