Productivity Commission sounds alarm on inequality

Number of Australians living below poverty line has not declined since late 80s – report

Despite 27 years of uninterrupted economic growth, the number of Australians living below the poverty line has failed to decline since the late 1980s, the Productivity Commission has found.

Peter Harris, the commission’s chairman, says the finding is serious and ought to demand the attention of Australia’s political leaders.

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