The promise of cutting unemployment by one-half has yet to be met.

"If we don't have a change of course, it will be difficult to achieve the necessary growth rates and cut unemployment," he said.

Foot said that he could cut unemployment to under one million in five years by public spending, tax reduction and devaluation.

Since his inauguration in January 1996, a booming economy has cut local unemployment almost in half, to 3.5 percent.

The goal is to cut double-digit unemployment in inner-city neighborhoods.

In addition, Parliament is discussing a series of new programs aimed at cutting unemployment and improving social services.

The key to cutting unemployment is society showing unemployed people that they matter, not marginalising them.

The Blair government also introduced a number of strategies to cut unemployment.

The city's prosperity, which has cut unemployment to 5.5 percent, made trying seem just a little more possible.

On local matters, he has ideas for public projects to cut unemployment and prove that his government is better than Ottawa's.