The government have announced they will pay £2500 to businesses who employ people who have been out of work for more than 6 months.
BBC NEWS | Politics | Brown promises action over jobs
I originally tried to find a thread which I thought I'd created or posted in, back in November. Where the Conservatives proposed this exact same policy, with the exact same £2500 figure. It seems I hadn't posted it, but here's a link to the November article.
BBC NEWS | Business | Tax cuts: just one piece of the jigsaw
Back in November Gordon had this to say:
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Originally Posted by BBC
Gordon Brown dismissed the plan as a "one-off initiative" when what was needed was "a serious policy for serious times".
"They can't show definitively how they can guarantee to pay for it."
"They change their policy every day, they have a new initiative to get them on the news, but it is not serious in measuring up to the problems we face."
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