雇用下支えへ経済対策検討　３次補正予算に言及―下村自民政調会長

　自民党の下村博文政調会長は２７日のＮＨＫの番組で、新型コロナウイルス感染症の影響で悪化している雇用情勢を下支えするため、追加の経済対策を検討する考えを示した。２０２０年度第３次補正予算案の編成にも言及した。
　下村氏は「仕事を失う人が拡大している。追加経済対策を打つことで心配のない態勢を取っていくことは最も重要だ」と指摘。持続化給付金や雇用調整助成金、家賃支援給付金の支給期間の延長を選択肢に挙げた。同時に「予備費で足らない部分があれば３次補正も考える」と語った。
　１０月下旬に召集される見通しの臨時国会に関しては「来年の東京五輪・パラリンピックを成功させるため、経済対策をどうやっていくかを国会で議論していく必要がある」と強調した。（2020/09/27-11:14）

Japanese ruling party official Hakubun Shimomura suggested a plan on Sunday to consider additional economic measures to support the employment market, which has been deteriorating amid the continuing spread of the novel coronavirus.
   In a television program, Shimomura, chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party's Policy Research Council, also referred to the possibility of compiling a third supplementary state budget for fiscal 2020.
   "As more and more people are losing jobs, removing anxiety through implementing additional economic measures is the most important thing," he said. As possible measures, Shimomura cited extensions of a benefit scheme for small companies and self-employed people, a special measure under an employment adjustment subsidy program and a rent support program for businesses.
   "We will consider compiling a third extra budget" for fiscal 2020 if the amount of money currently set aside as state budget reserves is not sufficient, he said.
   On an extraordinary session of the Diet, Japan's parliament, that is seen to be convened in late October, Shimomura said, "The Diet needs to discuss economic measures to ensure the success of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games next year." The Summer Olympics and Paralympics have been postponed by one year to 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.