The phrase "a jobs programme" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a plan or initiative aimed at creating employment opportunities.
Example: "The government has announced a new jobs programme to help reduce unemployment rates in the region."
Alternatives: "an employment initiative" or "a job creation scheme".
"Labour will introduce a tax on bank bonuses to pay for a jobs programme for young people.
In America, President Obama has recently sent a jobs programme and a call for investments in transportation, clean energy, and education to a Congress in stalemate.
"If Trump ends up destroying the Republican party," they wrote, "it is because the Republican party, as it exists today, is little more than a jobs programme for failed academics and journalists".
People who support the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would ferry oil from the tar sands of Canada to the refineries of Texas, point out that building the pipeline would create 20,000 jobs, just like that.At the risk of being obvious: energy policy is not a jobs programme.
But he has also promised to renegotiate the treaty, and supports a jobs programme paid for by bank and wealth taxes, along with a 75% tax rate on those earning more than a million euros a year – the stuff of George Osborne's nightmares.
But he found a way to work with Mr Shabazz, letting him rant at the beginning of their meetings, "the veins in his neck straining", until finally he settled down and started talking about concrete plans for a job programme.
"South Africa needs a huge jobs programme, like what Roosevelt did in the United States.
She was on her way to a city jobs programme, as her current job will soon end.
Sacking his feared interior minister, he promised a huge jobs programme, and inquiries into corruption and excessive police force.
The Birmingham pilot scheme was inspired by a US jobs programme first pioneered by Michigan-based Butterball Farms.
