Good, me too, as I said to Prog I think we should be creating opportunity for people to get into work but it should be directly funded by the top 1% through social enterprises. It is then up to the poeple to take those opportunities, be that education, work or starting a business.
I would have more government funded childcare places too out of the same taxation. I think reducing the tax burden on small businesses would help in the short term to keep employment but on the proviso of creating jobs. I think bigger businesses can also help here, for example Santander have a grant scheme to take on graduates from certain Universities that participate and those Universities also allow recruitment for free (not recruiters as far as I know).
There should be more schemes like this from bigger businesses but aimed at SME's as they will essentially be the supply chain and many types of jobs, not just the low skilled are created. Look at degree apprenticships as a way of getting into work and if businesses are afforded these tax breaks then more people should be employed. I'm not saying it will be perfect but some opportunity has to be better than none. Eliminating the poverty trap is going to be hard and I doubt, like Viz and DW, it will ever be as the bell scale proves.
