Care Economy Growing Fast and Boom Set to Continue

A small group of children play at the Robertson Street Kindy Childcare Centre in Helensburgh south of Sydney, Australia, on April 3, 2020. AAP Image/Dean Lewins

Workers are piling into caring professions, fresh jobs data suggests in a trend Treasurer Jim Chalmers says should be welcomed not snubbed.

Australia has consistently produced more jobs than expected in an anaemic economy and Oct. 17th’s official labour force data confirms many of those roles are in non-market sectors.