unemployment

Mr.Somavia says the International Labour Organization is proposing a global jobs agreement to deal with unemployment.

And based on past experiences, it takes four to five years after economic recovery for unemployment to return to pre-crisis levels.

The author tends to believe that high unemployment rate deprives many people of job opportunities.

What do we learn from the passage about the unemployment figures in the U.S.?

As you are probably aware, the latest job markets news isn't good: Unemployment is still more than 9 percent, and new job growth has fallen close to zero.

Millions of American families may now be in the initial stage of their responses to the current crisis, working together and supporting one another through the early months of unemployment.

Now, to get back to what I was saying, there's a lot of unemployment as well as geographical problems in the region.

Why, then, has this claim become so popular?Part of the answer is that this is what always happens during periods of high unemployment—in part because experts and analysts believe that declaring the problem deeply rooted, with no easy answers, makes them sound serious.

What can be done about mass unemployment? All the wise heads agree: there're no quick or easy answers.

Unemployment has surged in every major occupational category.

Unemployment cannot be brought down rapidly, declared one 1935 analysis, because the workforce is unadaptable and untrained.

To offer a feasible solution to the structural unemployment.

So the evidence contradicts the claim that we're mainly suffering from structural unemployment.

Saying that there're no easy answers sounds wise, but it's actually foolish: our unemployment crisis could be cured very quickly if we had the intellectual clarity and political will to act.

Only three states, with a combined population not much larger than that of Brooklyn, have unemployment rates below 5%.

On the contrary, all the facts suggest that high unemployment in America is the result of inadequate demand.

In other words, structural unemployment is a fake problem, which mainly serves as an excuse for not pursuing real solutions.

I've been looking at what self-proclaimed experts were saying about unemployment during the Great Depression; it was almost identical to what Very Serious People are saying now.

As I said, structural unemployment isn't a real problem, it's an excuse—a reason not to act on America's problems at a time when action is desperately needed.

And that, fundamentally, is why claims that we face huge structural problems have been multiplying: they offer a reason to do nothing about the mass unemployment that is crippling our economy and our society.

Patrick Belser, an International Labour Organization specialist says declining wage rates are linked to the levels of unemployment.

Are people suffering from gadget overload? Are they exhausted by the consumer equivalent of the brain fatigue—information overload—that is caused by constant updates of devices and online media?As you are probably aware, the latest job markets news isn’t good: Unemployment is still more than 9 percent, and new job growth has fallen close to zero.

Unemployment in January jumped to a 16-year high of 7.06 percent, as 598000 jobs were slashed from US payrolls in the worst single-month decline since December, 1974.

Collectively, we rely on the unemployment figures and other statistics to frame our sense of reality

The official unemployment rate is the product of a telephone survey of about 60000 homes.

What does the author think of the unemployment figures and other statistics

the definition of unemployment is too broad

Despite unemployment and the lost of her home, Andrea Clark considers herself a blessed and happy woman.

Analysts say the biggest problem is high unemployment, which weakens demand and makes banks reluctant to lend.

As you are probably aware, the latest job markets news isn't good: Unemployment is still more than 9 percent, and new job growth has fallen close to zero.

At first, Rosen bought groceries and made house payments with the help from unemployment insurance.

But Pennsylvania State Representative Scott Petri says governments simply do not have enough money to extend unemployment insurance.

Experts who monitor unemployment statistics here in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, say about 28, 000 people are unemployed, and many of them are jobless due to no fault of their own.

I've been looking at what self-proclaimed experts were saying about unemployment during the Great Depression; It was almost identical to what Very Serious People are saying now.

Only three states, with a combined population not much larger than that of Brooklyn,have unemployment rates below 5%.

Part of the answer is that this is what always happens during periods of high unemployment—in part because experts and analysts believe that declaring the problem deeply rooted, with no easy answers, makes them sound serious.

The quite dramatic unemployment figures, which we now see in some of the countries, strongly suggest that there will be greater pressure on wages in the future, as more people will be unemployed, more people will be looking for jobs and the pressure on em

Their goal is to convince lawmakers to extend unemployment benefits.

They found some evidence that some crude measures, like income inequality, correlated with changes in well-being, but economic measures with a more direct impact, like family income and unemployment rates which put families into difficulties, had no relat

Unemployment cannot be brought down rapidly, declared one 1935 analysis, because the workforce is "unadaptable and untrained. It cannot respond to the opportunities which industry may offer."

The principle of British welfare is no longer that you can insure yourself against the risk of unemployment and receive unconditional payments if the disaster happens.

By most recent measures, the UK’s GDP has been the envy of the Western world, with record low unemployment and high growth figures.

By most recent measures, the UK's GDP has been the envy of the Western world, with record low unemployment and high growth figures.

Davidson's article is one of a number of pieces that have recently appeared making the point that the reason we have such stubbornly high unemployment and declining middle-class incomes today is largely because of the big drop in demand because of the Gre

Many people talked of the 288,000 new jobs the Labor Department reported for June, along with the drop in the unemployment rate to 6.1 percent, as good news.

Many said that unemployment, while extremely painful, had improved them in some ways; they had become less materialistic and more financially prudent; they were more aware of the struggles of others.