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Revenue-contingent wage loans, a proposal for supporting jobs in times of crisis

Written by Robert Costanza, Professor and VC's Chair, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

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As JobKeeper is wound back, businesses are tentatively preparing to stand on their own feet.

What follows is a simple proposal to help them share the risk (and rewards) with their workers.

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