Cutting the minimum wage won’t help unemployed youth
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The Brotherhood of St Laurence (BSL) has released a new report entitled “Generation Stalled”, which chronicles the growing scourge of youth labour underutilisation (unemployment and underemployment combined), which is running at its highest level in at least 40-years at 31.5%:

According to BSL:
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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness.
Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.