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Get Funds We Badly Need for Public Housing, Public Hospitals & Public Schools – Rip The Wealth from The Mine Owners & Bankers & Place It into Public Hands!

Get Funds We Badly Need for Public Housing, Public Hospitals & Public Schools –

Rip The Wealth from The Mine Owners & Bankers & Place It into Public Hands!

When ALP treasurer Wayne Swan announced the Federal Budget in May, he spoke of the need to restrain spending and implement a “responsible fiscal strategy.”  As usual that means that it is the most vulnerable who are going to be squeezed even more. Most notably, the Labor-Greens government will slash payments to many unemployed single parents (mostly single mothers) by $56 a week even while offering no initiatives to provide the affordable childcare crucial to enabling many single mothers to work. Twenty-one year old unemployed youth will also have their payments reduced as will newly disabled people relying on the Disability Support Pension. Continue reading Get Funds We Badly Need for Public Housing, Public Hospitals & Public Schools – Rip The Wealth from The Mine Owners & Bankers & Place It into Public Hands!