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Create “Economic Recovery” jobs
Tan Kin Lian / Columnist
Just pumping funds into the economy will not do. It is also important to curb unemployment, and Singapore can do this by creating new “Economic Recovery” jobs.
Being an open economy, Singapore has been badly affected by the global recession with a severe contraction of the economy in 2009. Many people have lost their jobs.
There is an urgent need to create new “economic recovery” jobs for these displaced workers and new job seekers.
Examples of these jobs are teaching assistants in schools, health care assistants in hospitals, carers to look after children, elderly, disabled and the sick, customer service assistants in train stations, bus terminus, town centers and neighborhoods.
These assistants can reduce the stress from employed people who now have to spend work longer hours to keep their jobs. Continue…
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