Saturday, November 28, 2015

Some important income statistics from Parliament

Source: Malaysiakini 

PARLIAMENT: 
Bumiputera households make up the majority of the country's top 20 percent income earners (T20), but the community also sees the widest intra-group income disparity.
According to data from a parliamentary written reply, the bumiputera make up 53.81 percent of the T20 category, followed by Chinese at 37.05 percent, Indians at 8.80 percent and others at 0.34 percent.
However, when the comparison is made within the bumiputera group itself, T20 earners only comprise 16.34 percent.
The remaining comprises the middle 40 percent income earners (M40) at 38.96 percent and the bottom 40 percent income earners (B40) making up the majority at 44.7 percent.
This is in contrast with the Chinese and Indian communities, where the M40 group makes up the majority.
Within the Chinese community, the T20 group makes up 29.66 percent, followed by the M40 group at 42.32 percent and B40 at 28.02 percent.
As for the Indian community, the T40 group stands at 19.98 percent, followed by the M40 income earners at 41.31 percent and the B40 at 38.71 percent.
The T20 group is defined as having a median income of RM11,610 or a mean income of RM14,305.
The M40 group has median income of RM5,465 or mean income of RM5,662, while the B40 have a median income of RM2,629 and mean income of RM2,537.
Compared across ethnicity, the bumiputera also make up the majority of the M40 group at 64.17 percent.
Chinese make up the remaining 26.43 percent followed by Indians at 9.10 percent and others at 0.30 percent.
However, the bumiputera disproportionately make up the majority of the B40 group.
They make up 73.61 percent, followed by Chinese at 17.50 percent, Indians at 8.52 percent and others at 0.36 percent.
The data, from the household income and expenditure 2014 report, was furnished by Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Abdul Wahid Omar in a written reply to Ampang MP Zuraida Kamaruddin yesterday.
The rural-urban divide is also apparent in terms of the income they earn.
For rural households, the B40 group makes up the majority at 64.06 percent, the M40 group at 29.35 percent while the T20 group only makes up a meagre 6.59 percent.
In contrast, the middle class M40 makes up the majority at 43.19 percent, followed by the B40 at 32.79 percent while the T20 group is at 24.02 percent.
Interestingly, for the T20 earners, one in five of them, or 20.5 percent, identify themselves as government servants.
Of the remaining in the T20 group, 8.1 percent identify themselves as “employees”, 57.8 percent as private sector workers and 13.5 percent as self-employed.
For the M40 group, three percent identified themselves as employers, 17.3 percent as government servants, 59.2 percent as private sector employees and 20.5 percent as self-employed.
As for the B40 group, only 0.8 percent identified themselves as employers, 8.1 percent as government servants, 56.9 percent as private sector employees and 34.1 percent as self-employed.

Read more: https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/321081#ixzz3skVsHLCW



Post DAPSY Election

I am especially thankful to my team members. Despite our lost, I just wanna to tell you that we have fought a good fight. We have started to know each other more in this campaign period and I believe that the friendship we built will last beyond this election to our future works. Words cannot express how much I cherish each of your friendship, support and help.

In addition, I want to thank all of you who during this journey become friends in need for me. Some of you send me many texts to encourage me; some of you belanja me eat nice meals, I still remember one of you belanja me eat KFC when I was very down during the campaign period, that chicken tasted like heaven, haha! Some of you prayed earnestly for me; some of you campaigned harder for me than I for myself.....there are just so many of you that have helped me along the way, and after I have lost, every one of you who has cared and encouraged me, I will forever remember that.

Overall, I am just so grateful to each of you. With you, I know I am not alone.


社青团选后感言: 感恩再感恩


我特别要感谢我的团队成员。尽管我们输了,我只想告诉你们,我们已经打了一场漂亮仗。这次竞选期间我们开始更了解对方,我相信我们建立的友谊将持续到我们日后其他的工作。言语无法表达我心中对你们每一个的友谊,支持和帮助的珍惜及感恩。


另外,我要感谢那些在这个这个旅程中帮助我的朋友。有些人每天给我发信息帮我加油,有些人请我吃饭,我还记得有其中一位在竞选期间在我最低落的时候请我吃肯德基,哇,那炸鸡的味道美味到好像天堂一样,哈哈!还有你们当中有些人恳切的为我祷告, 有一些比我更努力的帮我竟选!我输了后,你们的关心,鼓励对我不离不弃的举动也让我感动不已。

恕我的语言能力不好(不好意思,我工程系的,哈哈!)不能好好的表达我对你们的感恩。但是我只想让你们知道,每当我想起你们的每一份付出,鼓励及帮忙,都让我的心感到很温暖。人家说政治没朋友,但是希望我们的友谊能够持续-为梦想,为党,为国家,为下一代。

有了你们,我知道我以后的路不会孤单。谢谢,谢谢,谢谢,谢谢,谢谢 你们!哈哈!

p/s:抱歉不能早一些写这些因为改选后一忙就忙到现在。同志们,我们一起继续努力吧!

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

杨美盈竞选民主行动党全国社青团总团长宣言


在我们的人生中,有时做决定比任何事情都困难。 竞选社青团总团长不曾是我在党内外做任何一个工作的目标。 而且这次竞选激烈,我自认处于下风,有不少人劝我不要打这场硬战,免得被人批评看笑话,但我最后还是选择不退缩,努力迎战,因为我认为青年是改变国运的关键力量,而我党在接下来两年如何装备、赋权、强化和动员党内外青年是取得下届大选胜利的关键。