New Palang Dharma leader raises concern over rising unemployment, falling incomes

By The Nation

 

Dr Rawee Maschamadol

 

The leader of New Palang Dharma Party, Dr Rawee Maschamadol, has expressed concern over the increasing unemployment, expecting the number of jobseekers to reach 400,000 next year.

 

He was making his remarks on Thursday (October 31) after a survey showed the household income of Bangkokians had decreased from Bt49,194 a month in 2013 to Bt46,695 a month in 2019.

 

“This is a serious matter because their income has decreased by Bt2,499 a month, or 5 per cent in the past six years,” he said. “The statistics of unemployment rate in 2019 has also increased to up to 390,000 people and is expected to increase to over 400,000 people in 2020.”

 

He said these problems should be solved by increasing people’s incomes, expanding career opportunities, and enabling citizens to access financial sources if they prefer to run a startup business, instead of the government taking refuge in populist policies.

 

He also suggested that the government allocate a budget to solve the household income problem by promoting the development of labour skills and supporting private businesses to add more value to their products in order to increase the employment rate, which would also boost the household income.

 

“Focusing on creating jobs and labour skill development will help the Thai economy become more stable in the long-term, which is better than taking recourse to new populist policies,” he added.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30377934

 

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33 minutes ago, webfact said:

a survey showed the household income of Bangkokians had decreased from Bt49,194 a month in 2013 to Bt46,695 a month in 2019.

You don't need to be Einstein to work out the relevance of this time frame!

19 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

You don't need to be Einstein to work out the relevance of this time frame!

It's called trickle up economics implemented by you know who!

2 hours ago, webfact said:

household income of Bangkokians had decreased from Bt49,194 a month in 2013 to Bt46,695 a month in 2019.

Sounds a bit high to be the average income of people in Bangkok, but i suppose the HISos are included..

wow, 50k per household and the daily minimum is 300 baht...

 

thai mathematics ?

 

thai farmers & others making more money than they declare (no need to pay tax)

18 hours ago, webfact said:

“Focusing on creating jobs and labour skill development will help the Thai economy become more stable in the long-term, which is better than taking recourse to new populist policies,” he added.

But Prayut prefers the "shop, eat till you drop" stimulus package better!

18 hours ago, webfact said:

a survey showed the household income of Bangkokians had decreased from Bt49,194 a month in 2013 to Bt46,695 a month in 2019

Not to mention that the cost of living has risen over the same period.

 

Still, the most important point is that not a single member of the military is likely to become unemployed. They are the only really important people , the quality people , the loyal people , so as long as its only the general population that is feeling the squeeze then there is nothing to worry about.

 

Many Bangkokians took to the streets to support Suthep with his shutdown Bangkok campaign to kill off democracy. So they are probably very happy right now and Dr Rawee is fetting over nothing

How many working people in a typical Thai household?

9 minutes ago, rickudon said:

How many working people in a typical Thai household?

One

Most likely income information from the middle class families.