A decade worth of job growth has been destroyed in the last six months. Picture: KATHERINE MUICK
In July and August 16% of households went to bed hungry; and 42% of the working-age population are now jobless. Employment levels are what they were in 2009, with a decade worth of job growth destroyed in the past six months. Between 2.4-million and 3-million people have lost their jobs. There is some good news: the social welfare measures that the government stepped in with to mitigate the loss of income during the lockdown were reasonably effective and reached 4.3-million people. While the Nids-Cram researchers believe that an even larger number of people — 6.5-million — who qualified for the grant based on their socioeconomic status did not receive payments for a variety of reasons, the reach the government achieved in a short space of time was impressive.
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