Panel proposes gov't create 1 mil jobs for young people over next 3 years

Thursday 24th April, 06:26 AM JST

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efftta at 09:46 AM JST - 24th April

The lack of focus on creating an environment for young mothers to have some form of employment really should be dealt with. Creating 200,000 jobs for young mums is a great start, but when society and tradition itself demands that young mums stay at home to be proper "housewives", it forces large social problems - such as declining birthrates. Who can afford a single income household? Not many, it would seem.
geronimo2006 at 10:03 AM JST - 24th April

Dreams are free. It all sounds good and is designed for improving governemnt approval ratings. Panel proposes policy change...blah blah blah.... Of course no real detail is given on how this is to be done, let alone actually implementing anything. Believe it when you see it. Here is the real news as it should be reported..... Another panel of very well paid and connected policy advisors has again spent a lot of public money getting together for lots of meeting, lunches and other outings slowly forming a group consensus on a wishy-washy, no-action, feel-good policy on which the elected politicians will do nothing unless it supports their own personal political careers.
nisegaijin at 10:10 AM JST - 24th April

Your taxes at work, gentlemen! welcome to frigging socialism!
jerseyboy at 02:09 PM JST - 24th April

Was anyone else shocked to read that the unemployment rate among men 25-34 was 9% last year? That's over double the national average. If guys in the prime of their lives, who should be just launching their careers can't find jobs, or don't want to, that is a bad sign. Even so, sadly, geronimo is most likely completely correct -- lot's of talk but probably no action.
frontandcentre at 03:08 PM JST - 25th April

Why on earth does the J Government need to create jobs? I thought the problem was that there aren't enough young people available to do jobs that already exist... I hear story after story about companies that want new recruits and can't get them.

I think that the best way would be to make salaries and terms of employment more attractive. Spending years forced to work late, drink with and defer to some of the salarymen that I see on a daily basis would be plenty of disincentive for anyone to get a job.