- 140
- Episodes
- 130
- Transcribed
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
- 18K
- YouTube views
About Dollars & Sense
Economic data can tell us a lot about what's happening the economy and society, but it's easy to get lost in data. Dollars and Sense dives into the latest economic figures to explain how they impact you and what they tell us about the state of the Australian economy, with host Greg Jericho, Chief Economist at the Australia Institute and the Centre for Future Work and popular columnist of Grogonomics with Guardian Australia.
- Publisher
- The Australia Institute
- Category
- news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 19 Nov 2023
- Latest episode
- 17 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
130 of 140 episodes have a transcript.
17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
A shocking number of Australians on Jobseeker are dying – it doesn’t have to be this way
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A shocking number of Australians on Jobseeker are dying – it doesn’t have to be this way
Published 17 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And this is the thing we know about JobSeeker. The rate of JobSeeker is about 45% below the poverty line or in dollars term about $300 a week below in poverty. So even if you raise JobSeeker $300 a week, that would mean that they are now living on the poverty line. Yeah. Which is not a position that anyone has kind of bragged about as going, yeah, I'm Things are good now. I'm on the poverty line. Yeah. So I sort of looked at this and thought, okay, well, there's something here because when you look over just the course of any particular year, including 2020, people on JobSeeker, people on unemployment benefits have a much higher rate of morbidity of death than those not on JobSeeker. you know, and it's across all ages, it's about five times greater. […]
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