There are now over 201 million of us and about 100 million (roughly 50 per cent) are extremely poor. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, our unemployment rate increased from 18.8 per cent in the third quarter of 2017 to 23.1 per cent in in the third quarter of 2018. A friend recently ask
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