Authorities should first turn to follow the unemployment and income levels. About it on air of TV channel “Russia 24” stated the assistant to the President of Russia Vladimir Putin Maxim Oreshkin, reports TASS.
“the President always says that it is for these two indicators for unemployment and incomes — the authorities, the government and the Central Bank should look at first, because it is a major problem area”, he said.
Authorities have identified three features of the crisis due to coronavirus
Oreshkin stressed that on these points all over the world, there are negative trends. In particular, if in the US for a month for unemployment benefits approached 22 million people, in Russia a large number of people were sent on forced leave, was also a marked decrease in salaries.
Previously, on 25 April, the head of the accounts chamber Aleksei Kudrin has warned that the pandemic novel coronavirus infection from six to nine million Russians — not less than 7-8 per cent of the economically active population of the country can remain without work. In the worst case, unemployment may reach 10 percent. According to Rosstat, in March it stood at 4.7 percent.
