Last year, as part of their Plans for Economic Reform, the state offic

Last year, as part of their Plans for Economic Reform, the state officials of Rostoria introduced, in both the public and private sectors, a record number of employment generation schemes, which together generated a record number of new jobs in the Rostorian economy. This year too, the officials must introduce a record number of such schemes in order to break last year’s record for new jobs created. This is because last year’s schemes will not be adding as many new jobs overall this year as they added last year.

Which of the following is an assumption on which the suggestion relies?

A - Last year, the overall employment generated was greater than the employment lost.

B - The number of jobs created by older employment generation schemes is likely to be less than the number of jobs lost due to various economic and non-economic causes.

C - This year, fewer employment generation schemes than last year will not generate substantially more jobs per scheme than did new schemes last year.

D - The public and the private sectors are unlikely to add a greater number of jobs this year than last year.

E - At any given time, the newly introduced employment generation schemes create more new jobs overall than do previously introduced employment generation schemes.