Huge drop in JobKeeper numbers as recession ends

National accounts figures to be released today are widely predicted to show economic growth of 2.5 per cent, after a record drop in the previous quarter. It comes as the Reserve Bank kept interest rates at a record low 0.1 per cent.There were 670,000 Queensland workers on JobKeeper in July at the height of the worst recession since the great depression. But as of November it has dropped to 218,328 people, new Treasury data reveals.

It is a drop of about 67 per cent,…



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