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The best way to boost the economy is the best way to improve the lives of disadvantaged students

  • Written by Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW

What if we had an opportunity to double the size of the tourism industry, or to quadruple the size of the beef industry, or to boost the economy by more than any of the presently proposed tax switches?

What if we could do it while permanently improving the lives of disadvantaged young people?

We surely wouldn’t let it slip away.

Yet we do every...

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