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2 years since the 27 Feb 2009 Job Summit

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It is now exactly 2 years since the 27 Feb 2009 Job Summit hosted by Prime Minister John Key.

Question: What have been the results from that Job Summit??

It would be good if the Government could provide concrete facts on what has been achieved from that highly promoted gathering of New Zealand's "leaders". Was it a Job Fest or just another Talk Fest?

The following are statistics from Statistics New Zealand
Source: http://search.stats.govt.nz/search?w=unemployment&af=ctype:statistics

Quarter Employed Unemployed Employment Unemployment
Dec 2008 2,207,000 106,000 69.0% 4.6%
Dec 2009 2,155,000 163,000 68.1% 7.0%
Dec 2010 2,182,000 158,000 67.9% 6.8%

Two years on from the Job Summit women are considerably worse off with the unemployed figure for women rising from 4.7% to 7%, up 26,000 from 51,000 to 77,000.

Overall, there are 25,000 fewer jobs in New Zealand two years after the Job Summit. This is not a good result by anyone's standards.
Our "leaders" need to explain.
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