Australian Labor Government to Stop Welfare Payments to Teenage Mothers
Submitted on June 29, 2011
By Tania Baptist - WSWS
In a trial scheme to begin next January, the Gillard Labor government will strip teenage mothers in disadvantaged communities of welfare payments for failing to comply with compulsory “participation” obligations once their babies are just six months old...The attack on one of the most vulnerable groups in society is part of a raft of measures...aimed at forcing the disabled, the long-term unemployed, and single mothers off welfare and into the workforce, where they will become a new source of cheap labour.
