Hi there, I'm Ed Butler. Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. Today, the scourge of

unemployment, close to 100 million more people, most of them young, without jobs, thanks to COVID-19.

I've just been applying for everything, like 20 or odd more jobs every day, but you don't really hear back from any

of them. And you hear that like a thousand of other people are applying as well. And you just think,

how am I supposed to compete with all of these people that have got more experience than me?

Do we need a global strategy to fix the jobs crisis? A bigger, more strategic, more active state is going to be unavoidable if we want to

really rise to the challenge of long-term worklessness. That's all to come in Business Daily from the BBC.

Normally in this beach, it's Patong Beach. It's very popular as every tourist snow.

Full of people here. But look at this now. There's no people.

I have to find another way. Everyone has to find nowhere to save yourself.

This is Jay. He's one of thousands of young Thai workers who simply aren't working these days.

The year-long loss of tourist visitors to his hometown, Pouquet, over the last year,

means that he and many others like him are having to reconsider their

entire future. Even well-educated local graduates like Gee and Mai are feeling the pinch.

It's hard. Because we don't have money, now we don't have a customer to come in a hotel

and we don't have money.

It's not enough.

It's very hard to find the job in this industry.

I try to help my mom to do more job in the family work.

Because everyone has more expense, right? We have to change the attitude,

reduce the expectation. Tourist is very important factor in Phuket, like everyone know.

That problem is telling. In the past, the solution to finding work did lie in education.

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