When they finished school, their age cohort faced an unemployment rate of more than 10 %. Even the university graduates among them were making an average of only NT $ 26,000 per month, or about 60 % of the national average.
於是，他們一出校門，就不得不面對青年失業率超過 10 %、就算大學畢業，平均起薪只有二萬六千多元，約為全國勞工平均薪資 6 成的低所得現況。