Published: 25 February 2021
At the same time, the Hiring Incentive Programme has placed 130,871 individuals (including disabled and senior citizens) in new jobs in the past year.
The implementation of Malaysia s Wage Subsidy Programme (PSU) has helped save 2.64mn jobs and 322,177 employers, the Minister of Finance has shared.
At the same time, in a Facebook post on Wednesday (24 February), Tengku Zafrul Aziz added that the Hiring Incentive Programme has placed 130,871 individuals (including disabled and senior citizens) in new jobs; while the various Skills and Skills Enhancement programmes have helped 135,751 people prepare for new jobs.
In line with that, Tengku Zafrul noted that Malaysia also observed a decrease in unemployment rate following the implementation of the various stimulus packages. In particular, it has dropped from 5.3% in May 2020 to 4.8% in December that year.
million people who were age 70 and older. by 2020 we will have 31.8 million people age 70 and older. that s a 38% increase of americans age 70 and older in ten years, and that is why you need new people to come in, because we re going to have stronger pressures on social security and social safety net matters as our population ages. that s, as you said, why this tends to be to not break down on partisan lines. you see many republican and progressive economists realizing that there is a need for sound, reasonable legal immigration. what i will say and this is my one caveat, is that as a country, we shouldn t rely on legal immigration to make up for our failures at training our own workers. we should have a much stronger system of skills enhancement, of apprenticeships, of affordable, even free college opportunities. so this is an interesting