Since the subprime mortgage collapse occurred in the United States in 2007, the worldwide financial crisis has furiously stricken the major capital markets, especially the financial system of developed countries. It is no doubt that this global economic storm has brought a huge rise in the number of unemployment and challenged the social welfare policy of those countries. The story I am going to tell is exactly a simple instance in Taiwan which reflects the social agitation stirred by this adversity.
Miss Liung is now in her early thirties. She has worked as a counselor in a department of Employment Services Center for one year. She always had passion whenever she helped her clients to find the jobs, and felt a sense of fulfillment. However, this situation has changed recently. During this year, the number of unemployment increasingly grows that brings her more clients to serve, so her work becomes heavier than ever, and the worst of all, the project she has engaged in is going to end and she finds no confidence to her future job. Will she be out of work after the contract ends? Or will it have a new project that is waiting for her? In weeks, she has suffered from this stress and still doesn’t know what to do.
Like Miss Liung, many people are at the edge of unemployment in Taiwan, survive in today's battle, but probably fail in the next day. According to the statistics of the Directorate-General of Budget, the employment rate of January 2008 is 3.80%, but the rate violently rises up to 5.31% after one year. If it doesn't change, there will be more people lose their jobs, even those who work for the government agencies.
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