IT may be the biggest budget on record but what may be required is an all-out spending package to lift people’s lives from a situation of joblessness and reduced salaries.
In a time of severe job losses, there should be a big social safety net for the affected people who are vulnerable to poverty and destitution.There needs to be a massive step-up in spending for them, with, among other things, extensions in loan repayment moratorium and a freeze in tenant eviction.
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