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JobMaker could be scaled back in budget

Matthew Cranston
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The $4 billion JobMaker program could be scaled back in the May budget given the rapid speed of the labour market recovery.

Finance Minister Simon Birmingham told a Senate hearing the scale of the scheme that was expected to create 450,000 jobs may be reduced.

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Matthew Cranston was The Australian Financial Review’s United States correspondent.
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