Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Austerity Destroying Jobs: Global Recovery a Myth



 

Worldwide “Jobless Numbers”: Global Unemployment Hits Record High, Declining Living Standards Annual Global Employment Trends report, the International Labour Organization (ILO) http://www.globalresearch.ca/worldwide-jobless-numbers-global-unemployment-hits-record-high-declining-living-standards/5320126


[Excerpted] World unemployment could hit record levels this year and continue rising until 2017, a United Nations agency reported Monday. In its annual Global Employment Trends report, the International Labour Organization (ILO) forecasts that jobless numbers around the world will rise by 5.1 million in 2013 to 202 million people, topping 2009’s record of 198 million.

Five years after the outbreak of the global financial crisis, world economic growth has decelerated and unemployment has begun to increase again. The ranks of the working poor are also on the rise, while large numbers of “discouraged workers” are dropping out of the labor market altogether.

The trends examined in the ILO report expose the fraudulent claim in Barack Obama’s inaugural address Monday that “an economic recovery has begun”—in the United States or elsewhere. On the contrary, a systemic crisis of the world capitalist economy is destroying jobs, particularly for the world’s youth, and plunging greater numbers of people into poverty. The austerity measures of governments around the world are further exacerbating this process....

read the entire article linked above to get a sense of the ongoing collapse in economic opportunity that is occurring around the globe, coinciding with the ongoing collapse of the ecosystem.


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