Urgent approach needed to curb unemployment, Seputeh MP says


Citing high unemployment statistics in a just-released UN report, DAP lawmaker Teresa Kok says the government needs to step up in actions to tackle urban poverty. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Nazir Sufari, February 8, 2021.

THE Perikatan Nasional (PN) government needs to take an urgent approach to improving the livelihood of the people and move beyond its agenda of political survival, said DAP lawmaker Teresa Kok.

The Seputeh MP’s comment came after a joint study by United Nations agencies UNICEF and UNFP that noted unemployment among low-income families in Kuala Lumpur have doubled during the conditional movement-control order (CMCO) imposed at the end of last year.


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