An ILO report warned that the total number of unemployed could reach 230 million, and that 45 percent of these workers are below the poverty line. As a direct consequence of the global economic crisis, 2009 could add 50 million new unemployed worldwide. In 2007, nearly 180 million people were without work. According to the ILO, the estimate for 2009 provides for an increase in the number of unemployed between 18 and 30 million and up to 50 if the situation continues to deteriorate. This is on the assumption that the unemployment rate could rise to 7.1 percent.
Meanwhile, the number of working poor or people who do not earn enough to support themselves and their families above the poverty line of a $2 per day wage may increase to a total of 1,400 million. This figure represents 45 percent of workers worldwide. According to the report, “There will be an increase in the rate of unemployment in all scenarios, especially in developing countries.” The impact will be felt with particular strength in the Asian economies, the agency said, although unemployment has already reached high levels in industrialized countries.
The ILO says that their message is realistic, not alarmist. The world faces a crisis of global unemployment. Many governments are aware of the situation and are taking steps, but it is necessary to undertake more vigorous and coordinated actions to prevent a global recession. The reduction of poverty is declining and the global middle class is being eroded, according to ILO’s director general.
Via LIVENEWS
We should not go above the current worldwide population level, until we solve some of the global problems. The people that are out of work should be put back to work in Earth friendly jobs. Jobs could be created in pollution cleanup, green energy, conservation, recycling, energy conservation, ocean farming and conservation and the planting of a trillion trees on the planet to clean up the air.
While the civilization stays stacked on the existent empire of economics that decides what to do with the money and the oil provoking purposely wars to get more money and more oil Wasting the world, Instead new solutions to balance the world’s actual mess. and this is… Global Warming and poverty derivating a infinite list of problems for the human being, The society will collapse in the next ten years or less.
But I’m being short with this few lines.