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By October 2020, more than 10 million unemployment cases had been filed in the United States, [11] swamping state-funded unemployment insurance computer systems and processes. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] The United Nations (UN) predicted in April 2020 that global unemployment would wipe out 6.7% of working hours globally in the second quarter of 2020 ...
If a source has figures for more than one year, only the most recent figure is used (with notes for exceptional circumstances). In the former Eastern Bloc countries, the public sector in 1989 accounted for between 70% and over 90% of total employment. [ 5 ]
Since the start of the recession, 8.8 million jobs have been lost, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. [10] In the U.S., jobs paying between $14 and $21 per hour made up about 60% those lost during the recession, but such mid-wage jobs have comprised only about 27% of jobs gained during the recovery through mid-2012.
Worldwide, over 60 percent of workers are in informal employment. Informal employment differs significantly in different world regions. In Africa , a 85.8 percent of employment falls under the informal sector, while in Asia and the Pacific , it accounts for 68.2 percent.
Global unemployment is expected to approach 208 million in 2015, compared with slightly over 200 million in 2012. [2] From January 2012 to January 2013, Italy experienced the largest increase in its unemployment rate (+2.1 percentage points), followed by the Netherlands (+1.0 percentage point), and France (+0.6 percentage point).
The national debt has more than exploded. It went from less than $1.6 trillion in 1984 ($4.8 trillion in 2024 dollars) to more than $35.5 trillion today, which should concern every American and is ...
This is a list of countries by employment rate, the proportion of employed adults at working age. The definition of "working age" varies: Many sources, including the OECD, use 15–64 years old, [1] but EUROSTAT uses 20–64 years old, [2] the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics uses 16 years old and older (no cut-off at 65 and up), [3] and the Office for National Statistics of the United ...
The payments that Lagos authorities offered for larger demolished structures, for example, were 31 percent lower than what the World Bank’s own consultants said they were worth. “It was like David and Goliath. There were these little people fighting against this giant,” Chapman said. The bank “really left vulnerable people on their own.”