Posts tagged "driving the unemployment rate down"

A slowing pace of annual growth in payroll jobs, which tracks the number of employees on employer payrolls, points to a slowdown in labour market growth.

The series of interest rate rises were aimed at taking the heat out of inflation and slowing the economy.

The Australian government hasn’t wholeheartedly and publicly committed itself to full employment since the 1945 Full Employment White Paper.

The study is based on Australian Bureau of Statistics data on underutilised labour and suicide rates from 2004 to 2016.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the national economy is prepared to take on global headwinds, following data showing Australia outperforming international peers.

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has come good on his historic promise to keep spending way beyond the crisis, to drive the unemployment rate down below where it was when the pandemic started.