By Kofi Ahovi The Trade Union Congress (TUC) wants government to focus especially on job creation in its budget for 2011 fiscal year. According to TUC, the umbrella organization for labor in Ghana, government would have to move away from its inflation targeting policy to an employment targeting strategy in the next year budget, which would be presented by the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning to Parliament next month. TUC made these suggestions in proposals to be submitted to the Finance Minister as part of inputs for next year’s budget. In the document dubbed “It’s time to create decent jobs for Ghanaians” the congress wants clear, measurable targets for employment creation on a region by region and district by district basis. According to the TUC, government must assess its performance mainly on the number of jobs created during the year and refrain from using inflation as the main indicator of its performance. It argues that the unemployment challenge facing the country requ...