High unemployment levels requires a president who works a lot - Estadão - 24-07-2021

Jair Bolsonaro already said his task is not job creation. But it is your task leads a project that breaks the circle of low growth, creating opportunities.

Talking with his supporters in Alvorada Palace, the president Jair Bolsonaro tried to get rid of your responsabilities inherent to your office he occupied. In a country presents pitiful economic growth and low level quality of education, Bolsonaro said that the young’s task is to “search for” job. “You have to search for. I do not create jobs. Who creates jobs is the private sector. I do not disturb the enterpreneurs”, he said. The president’s declaration is not a suprise, follows his ideia that a problem is not your fault, always the other’s fault – the work’s party government, the governors or the Federal Supreme Court. What is a surprise is the distort conception about his role on building a future for Brazil.

Few things say about the deepness crise in a country than the younthful behavior face the labor market. The unemployment levels of people between 18 to 24 years-old reached 22,8% on the 2022’s first quarter, the double of the average of the population, on the same time, 11% according to IBGE (Statistic and Geography Brazilian Institut) .On the 2021’s second quarter , 12,3 million brazilian until 29 years-old did not study or work. Try to understand this phenomenon and solve his dimensions, jointly with states, cities and the private sector is a main rule for any president.

Historically, the industry always creates more jobs and pay better. In the last years, however, Brazil is on the middle a Worker’s Party failed choice and a absence of industrial policy of Bolsonaro’s admnistration.

This cyclothymia, naturally, impacts the market. Since 2011, the industry loses 1 million jobs. More than a half was on sectors that more created jobs like clothes, shoes and metal products. Otherwise, dinamic sectors like information technology, can’t find specialized labor. The digital economy in all segments increased since the Covid Pandemic and goes up until the agriculture and services. Faced the absence of the State, many companies has trainning his own employes. Nothing of this exempt the goverment on promoting good education since the childhood.

Break this circle will demand a policy that promotes industrialization at the same time promotes high educaction to the youthful. The entrepreneurship, quoted by Bolsonaro will not save the youthful neither the GDP.

There are many challenges for a president, and there are more challenger in an unequal and poor country like Brazil. Become a president is a top of the public carreer. The Bolsonaro’s refuse on take the responsabilites, make us thinking what is his purpose on the reelection. By the way, his administration has the worst approval rates between women, poor young people and low level of educational. They are, also, the victims of unemployment and lack of future.

Tradução do português de Bruno Yudi Tamaki Inoue