Published on: Tuesday, February 09, 2021
By: Bernama
A home-less man reading a news- paper in Kuala Lumpur.
Kuala Lumpur: Unemployment among heads of low-income urban families in Kuala Lumpur low-cost flat has doubled during the last year’s Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO), said United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef).
Unicef in a statement Monday said the survey by Unicef and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) undertaken in December last year, found that the socio-economic conditions for around half of the households surveyed continue to deteriorate.
Based on Part Three of the Families on the Edge report, joblessness among heads of households has doubled from seven per cent in September 2020 to 15 per cent in December 2020, and one in three adults in participating households remain unemployed.
KUALA LUMPUR: Unemployment among heads of low-income urban families in Kuala Lumpur’s low-cost flats has doubled since last year’s Conditional Movemen.
Unemployment among heads of low-income urban families in Kuala Lumpur low-cost flats had doubled during the last year's Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO), said United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). UNICEF in a statement today said the survey by UNICEF and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) undertaken in December last year, found that the socio-economic conditions for around half of the households surveyed continued to deteriorate