These are the things I find interesting.
There are time I want to share articles, but in this busy world it is an imposition to send articles to people. However, I have this place here to put up articles and links that I think are important.
Reports and long documents.
The Nationals - ignore farmers - want coal
How we can generate work for all - end “the dole bludger myth”
We “pay” the unemployed for their service to keep inflation low - and we rob them!
Governments have the power to lift hundreds of thousands of households out of poverty if they want to.
The federal government did it last year, when it increased unemployment payments during the initial lockdowns.
That situation lasted a few months.
But then it let those families fall back into poverty by taking those special payments away again. Read the full details here:-
Keeping People Out of Jail Keeps People Out of Jail
To reduce incarceration, some counties and cities have stopped automatically prosecuting minor nonviolent crimes — and crime overall has gone down.
A wave of policy and policing reform has followed.Why would declining to prosecute people for low-level crimes also reduce other types of crimes? The study, by the National Bureau of Economic Research, found that the key is keeping folks out of the criminal justice system. Doing so reduced the odds by 58 percent that these folks would engage with that system in the future. So, to be clear, this doesn’t suddenly empty out the prisons — it’s not retroactive — but it dramatically slows the flow of folks being incarcerated, which, in turn, reduces the chances that those people will commit future crimes.
As the presently incarcerated end their sentences and leave, there won’t be the same flow of new prisoners coming in to replace them. It seems to me this is incredibly good news — both sides of the political divide should be happy.
Yeah lets blame some person - when the system is stuffed
13 JULY 2021
Don’t be distracted by the individual blame game, focus on the system
Cristy Clark
Although there has been a reasonable level of attention paid to governance issues — such as the incredibly slow vaccine roll out, the ongoing problems with hotel quarantine, and the timing of the lockdown itself — Sydney’s current lockdown has also been marked by an unhelpful focus on individual actions.
2021 Intergenerational Report (Australia)
The Treasurer has released the 2021 Intergenerational Report. The report projects an outlook for the economy and the Australian Government’s budget over the next 40 years. It examines the long-term sustainability of current policies and how demographic, technological and other structural trends may affect the economy and the budget.
Here is the TRUTH on what this report is really about ….