Posted by admin | Posted on 18-02-2012
Category : World News
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The employment situation is worsening around the world, according to a report by the United Nations International Labor Organization (ILO). The report highlighted the disastrous effects of the global downturn on workers. Unemployment remains high around the world.
Over 200 million potential workers remain unemployed, for a global jobless rate of 6.0 percent. And the ILO estimates that 30 percent of all workers, 910 million people, can be considered working poor, surviving on an average of less than $2 a day.

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