Reply #74: New Finance Minister has 'Jobs Program' to implement

[jannyk]

0902Finance Minister Samir Radwan says he's worried about Egypt's economy. "The longer this stalemate continues, the more damaging it is," he says. He adds that he has a package to help protesters: "As of next week I am launching a national employment scheme, which doesn't take people for fools."
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0914: Finance Minister Samir Radwan says the core demand of the protesters is for jobs. But while unemployment and other economic grievances have helped fuel these protests, the BBC's Jon Leyne notes that the protests in Tahrir Square are overtly political - they want the president to go and real democracy to be established.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698