"If you include these people who have no confidence that they will be able to find a job, the idle population in Taiwan would surpass 400,000.This could lead to many social problems," says Chien Hsi-chieh, a legislator and former secretary-general of the Taiwan Labor Front, who has long been an expert concerning the unemployment problem.
「如果加上這些沒有信心去找工作的人數，台灣的閒置人口應該超過四十萬人，會引發很多潛在的社會問題！」多年來鑽研失業問題的台灣勞工陣線前任秘書長、立法委員簡錫階表示。