Gallup CEO and Chairman Jim Clifton said that the number of full-time jobs as a percent of the total population was the lowest it had ever been. WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The official unemployment rate was not the misleading part, but… Read More ›
Unemployment
Crisis: Greece, May jobless rate climbs to record 27.6%
08 August, 15:37 (ANSAmed) – ATHENS, AUGUST 8 – Greece’s jobless rate hit a new record high of 27.6% in May, official national data showed on Thursday as the country staggers under austerity linked to its international… Read More ›
Greece: youth unemployment reaches a grim record of 64.2%
Overall February unemployment at 27%, against 21.9% in 2012 09 May, 16:31 (by Patrizio Nissirio) (ANSAmed) – ROME, MAY 9 – While Greek Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras assures that ”Greece is on the right path” and that recovery and new… Read More ›
Spain’s jobless rate soars to a record high of 27.16 per cent
In nearly two million homes, every adult is out of work – with no end of recession in sight Alasdair Fotheringham Thursday, 25 April 2013 For the first time since modern statistics began, Spain reached the landmark figure of more… Read More ›
Eurozone breaks record on Jobless level
Friday, 01 March 2013 Italy’s voters gave their verdict on the austerity medicine they’ve been forced to take when they went to the polls earlier this week. By Friday, one of the reasons behind the protest was highlighted when the… Read More ›
Greek Unemployment: 60% of young out of work
Thursday, 14 February 2013 Tensions are running high in Greece as the country’s workers suffer from unemployment rates that are double the rest of the eurozone’s. More than 60 percent of Greece’s young workers are unemployed, according to new data.The… Read More ›
Spain’s jobless figures hit record high
Spain’s unemployment rate has climbed to its highest level ever, the Spanish government said Thursday, as a painful recession takes a toll on the debt-stricken nation. The latest official figures show 26.02% of the population without jobs in the… Read More ›
World jobless number seen rising to record high: ILO
22 Jan 2013 GENEVA (AFP) Five years after the global financial crisis hit, unemployment numbers continue to soar, with a record 202 million people worldwide expected to be officially jobless this year, the International Labour Organization said Tuesday. Last year saw… Read More ›
Brussels fears ‘poverty trap’ for half of Europe as North-South gap widens
Unemployment in the eurozone jumped to a record high of 11.8pc in November as the region slid deeper into recession, with alarming rises across the Mediterranean that threaten extreme social distress. The report said the biggest single cause of the… Read More ›
Crisis: Greece; jobless rate to hover around 30% by 2014
19 December, 13:18 (ANSAmed) – ATHENS, DECEMBER 19 – Unemployment in Greece will climb to 29.3% in 2013 and 31% in 2014, the German institute of macroeconomic forecasts IfW Kiel predicted on Tuesday. The German institute’s economists, as daily… Read More ›
Eurozone unemployment hits record high of 11.7pc
Recession in the eurozone forced a further 173,000 people out of work during October and pushed the unemployment rate to a record high of 11.7pc. By Matthew Sparkes 2:09PM GMT 30 Nov 2012 Almost 26m people across Europe are now… Read More ›
Crisis: Greece;unemployment hits 25.4% in August, new record
(ANSAmed) – ATHENS, NOVEMBER 8 – Greece’s jobless rate rose for a 39th consecutive month to a new record of 25.4% in August, more than double the euro zone average, Kathomerini online reports quoting Greece’s statistics service ELSTAT…. Read More ›
The real jobs numbers: 41% of America unemployed, 1 in 3 doesn’t want work at all
Engineering Evil: Would like 2nd Confirmation on figures Published: 19 October, 2012, 00:43 Edited: 19 October, 2012, 08:53 Even if the US Labor Department has determined that the unemployment level has finally plateaued after months of staggering jobs statistics, the… Read More ›
Georgia flouts federal order, withholds lunch ladies’ unemployment benefits
By The Christian Science Monitor Saturday, September 8, 2012 8:33 EDT Scott Marshall, top, of Calhoun, Ga., files for unemployment in Dalton, Ga., in this photo from last month. (David Goldman/AP/File) Georgia has set up a showdown with the Obama… Read More ›
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