Keep the rate!

In Australia, the federal government is for the next few months paying all unemployed people a "covid supplement" of $550 a fortnight in addition to the dole which is $565.70. 

Many have pointed out that there has been no sympathy or mercy for the poor until the government's own supporters started losing jobs.  "It's not their fault" was one minister's memorable explanation for this sudden change.  The minister may be interested to know that unemployment often isn't the unemployeds' fault, and that before the Covid Crash,  there was just 1 job opening for every 16 job seekers. 

Now there is a campaign to keep these payments after the Covid Crash is over.

Graphic from Australian Unemployed Workers Union.  The data show weekly rates.  "Jobseeker" is the latest official euphemism for the dole.