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Amid soaring living costs, eight out of 10 households in Kuala Lumpur are still struggling to earn enough to meet their basic needs post-pandemic, according to a new UNICEF report.

Post-pandemic, KL's low-income households remain in a state of financial precarity, according to the recently released report ‘Living on the Edge’ by UNICEF. While there's been a recovery in incomes and unemployment, the escalating living costs and food prices leaves many households teetering on the edge, in which one in two children are forced to skip meals and have fewer than three meals daily. How can we prevent these families from slipping through the cracks amidst the ongoing cost of living crisis? On this episode of #ConsiderThis Melisa Idris speaks to Dr Juanita Vasquez Escallon, Chief of Social Policy of UNICEF Malaysia, and Dr Muhammed Khalid, Lead Researcher of DM Analytics.

This also means that the govt would have an additional RM4.31 billion in fiscal expenditure, which can be utilised for other objectives.

Ardern's Labour Party has slid in the polls, hurt by rising living costs, growing crime and concern about social issues.

The issue on living cost is also expected to be a topic of discussion at this coming sitting.

Datuk Seri Zafrul said the government heeds the people's concerns on the possibility of rising prices of goods as a result of the world oil price hike.

Though overall consumer sentiment has improved and asking prices have come down, key themes like price unaffordability, overhang of high-rise homes, rising living costs, will have a dampening effect.

With the current economic situation, the minimum household income in the country should be RM6,000 to RM7,000 a month to live comfortably.

Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) has urged the government to be more aggressve in finding ways to boost the people's incomes amid rising living costs.

The government's decision to optimise Budget 2016 spending will not affect measures to help reduce the cost of living, Datuk Ahmad Maslan said.

Malaysia's middle-income earners, the 'M40', are not eligible for cash aids, yet do not earn enough to weather rising living costs. So how can they boost their disposable income?

Government continues to be committed to improve the policies related to reducing the cost of living that are being implemented besides introducing new ones to help the people, said Datuk Seri Najib

Umno Youth is banking on a more sustainable solution in the Budget 2015 to offset rising living costs affecting the youth.

Three key costs that will be the people's focus are food and drinks, transport and housing, says deputy minister Ahmad Maslan.

The people in general hope the illegal assembly planned on new year eve to topple the government in protest against the hike in living cost would be aborted as it does not benefit anyone.

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