Treasury chief: Boosting Arab and Haredi employment would make Israel rich

varelse

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Mon Feb-08-10 08:53 PM
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Treasury chief: Boosting Arab and Haredi employment would make Israel rich

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1147306.html

Israel would be among the world's richest nations if Arabs and ultra-orthodox Jews could be brought into the economy, Israel's top treasury official said on Wednesday.

"If two groups of people were left out of GDP calculations, Israel would rank among the foremost developed countries," Ministry of Finance Director General Haim Shani said. "They are the Arabs and the Haredis."

"If we could bring them into the labor market we would benefit twice over," he said. "We would close wealth gaps and offer them opportunities on the one hand; and we would profit from their enterprise on the other."

Israel? I want to borrow one of your top government officials for a while. We need his mindset over this way. Seriously.

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provis99

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Mon Feb-08-10 09:47 PM
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1. Government ministers making sense.

Definitely not American politicians, are they?

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varelse

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Mon Feb-08-10 09:54 PM
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2. When American politicians make sense

it doesn't ever seem to make the news :shrug:

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Donald Ian Rankin

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Mon Feb-08-10 10:06 PM
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3. Hmm. I think he's conflating two very different issues.

My understanding is that the reason unemployment is high, and the steps that would be necessary to reduce it, are very different indeed for Israeli Arabs and Israeli Haredim.

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varelse

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Mon Feb-08-10 10:16 PM
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4. He seems to think that the solution is to bring both groups in

by "closing the wealth gap". If he believes that the same methods will work for the two obviously very different groups, I didn't catch that in the article...

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azurnoir

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Tue Feb-09-10 03:57 AM
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5. wonder which will be harder

getting Haredi men to leave their religious studies to work or Israeli employers to hire Arabs

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