Opposition leader Miguel Ceara Hatton said that the data presented by President Danilo Medina in his 27 February 2018 state of the nation address are misleading. Medina mentioned the creation of 120,000 jobs last year. But economist Ceara Hatton said that 87% of these jobs were in the informal sector or in government. He said 16,000 jobs were created in the formal sector, but the government also reported adding a similar amount of new jobs. He said that jobs in the non-government sector were down around 1,000 last year.
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Miguel Ceara Hatton
4 April 2018
