Economists say priorities should be job creation for young people and more privatisation.
This seems little more than job creation for political correctness lawyers.
Yet strong job creation, for which Mr Osborne can take some credit, is bringing down the welfare bill.
Trump secured the presidency after campaigning on a platform of anti-globalization and pledges of job creation for US workers.
And in pursuit of these objectives, we cannot afford to take economic growth and job creation for granted.
But it's not the film subsidies -- which support job creation for thousands of middle-class creative professionals -- that are to blame.
In any case, it makes no sense to look at changes in one company's work force and say that this measures job creation for America as a whole.
"BABs are a win for taxpayers, for state and local governments, for investors, for job creation, for the economy and, by extension, for America's future," he wrote.
With Bell Labs and other such idea factories disappearing, and with government research money endangered, what will propel innovation and job creation for the next 50 years?
Job creation, for example, is discouraged by the payroll tax, and investment is discouraged by the income tax, which is also a tax on savings.
Last week's employment data showed a welcome bit of job creation for several months' running, but other recent reports have been more lackluster.
