The best answer may be more extensive worker re-training, combined with a wider social safety net.
Second, we are told that we cannot balance the budget without cutting the social safety net.
In China, it means improving the social safety net and reducing the need for saving.
The Chinese government understands the challenges and is taking steps to establish a stronger social safety net.
Some poor countries, particularly those with excess household saving, could do with a better social safety net.
It is going to have to build up a non-existing social safety net for its billion-plus population.
First, the social safety net for the elderly, the needy, the disabled, and unemployed will be left intact.
Medicare I think is one of the cornerstones of our social safety net.
Nor have Europe's leaders resolved their long-running disagreements over how to balance economic growth and the social safety net.
" By this they meant a modified capitalist system, characterized by considerable state intervention and the fabled "social safety net.
Going to a credit-based social safety net would allow federal spending to be cut by at least 4% of GDP immediately.
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The U.S. can afford a social safety net, but our current programs are not sustainable, even in a robustly growing economy.
And China is spending more as it tries to build a social safety net for an aging population that has none.
And finally, government has also provided a social safety net to guarantee a basic level of security for all our citizens.
Ah, but in one crucial respect, during this recession the US has moved much closer to having a Euro-style social safety net.
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Our most important social safety net, and they have to be preserved.
Perhaps the region first had to stabilise its economies and build its social safety net before embarking on microeconomic and institutional reform.
Along with that, he blames "the dismantling of the social safety net".
Voters set priorities, among them defence, infrastructure and a social safety net.
China will spend billions building out its social safety net over the next few years, improving the livelihood of retiring and elderly Chinese.
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So social safety net policies to protect the poor from deprivation and want are justified on these grounds, as indicated at the outset.
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Although such payments may be justified as part of a social safety net, rewarding non-work and penalizing productive effort reduces jobs and economic activity.
"At the moment, the social safety net has become the focus of concern by the international community, " said former finance minister Mar'ie Muhammad recently.
The point is, put what is necessary in money into the social safety net for those losing out in the recession until recovery is achieved.
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China needs those jobs because it needs to tax workers to help pay for a social safety net it wants to create for its aging population.
But liberals see universal health coverage as the crown jewel in a completed social safety net, one that was well worth spending time and political capital on.
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And what I fear is that the Great Recession has moved the US towards European levels of structural employment, without any kind of Euro-style social safety net.
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The DPJ promised more welfare spending and a better social safety net, but has struggled to deliver amid the economic downturn and 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
The government has also introduced several measures this year to improve the social safety net, such as spending more on health care, pensions and payments to low-income households.
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