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UN chief alarmed at prospect of rising global unemployment
Associated Press ^ | Jan 20, 2016 7:20 PM EST | Edith M. Lederer

Posted on 01/20/2016 9:29:46 PM PST by Olog-hai

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's spokesman said Wednesday that projections for rising global unemployment over the next two years are "alarming" and the U.N. chief will keep pushing for job opportunities, especially for youth.

The comments from deputy spokesman Farhan Haq were in response to a new report from the U.N. labor agency projecting that the number of unemployed people will increase by nearly 2.3 million in 2016 and 1.1 million in 2017 as a result of the global economic slowdown last year.

Haq said Ban has been raising the need for new jobs in discussions with business leaders and others at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this week. ...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: bankimoon; davos; employment; un; unemployment

1 posted on 01/20/2016 9:29:46 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Farmers get paid to not grow crops. with welfare, we pay people not to work. What could possibly go wrong?


2 posted on 01/20/2016 9:31:29 PM PST by r_barton ("Trump" word origin "Triumph" - Merriam-Webster Dictionary)
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Just wait til the next world war—lots of jobs, the draft, rebuilding the cities. We will have too few people to do all the things that need to be done!


3 posted on 01/20/2016 9:35:14 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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And people who do work are punished with heavy taxation and the businesses they create are micromanaged by their government betters...


4 posted on 01/20/2016 9:44:34 PM PST by DB
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To: DB

Our money is taxed when we earn it, taxed when we spend it. Money we pay taxes with is taxed. The government is always adding more “fees”. How much of our own money can we keep? 25%? 10%? How much of our money is enough for the government? They never seem to get enough to be satisfied. We need a constitutional amendment setting the maximum rate that the government (local, state, federal totaled together) can take from us.


5 posted on 01/20/2016 9:48:59 PM PST by r_barton ("Trump" word origin "Triumph" - Merriam-Webster Dictionary)
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To: Olog-hai

So, now it’s the U.N. that “creates” jobs, not just socialist governments?


6 posted on 01/20/2016 9:51:40 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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7 posted on 01/20/2016 9:56:41 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Free Republic Caucus: vote daily / watch for the thread / Starts 01/20 midnight to midnight EDST)
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The UN was always envisioned as a socialist supergovernment. Alger Hiss liked Stalin’s USSR constitution so much, he made the UN’s charter into a clone of it.


8 posted on 01/20/2016 10:06:25 PM PST by Olog-hai
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More Socialism!! It’s the only cure.


9 posted on 01/20/2016 10:54:07 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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10 posted on 01/21/2016 1:05:23 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Free Republic Caucus: vote daily / watch for the thread / Starts 01/20 midnight to midnight EDST)
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No worries Moonbeam, soon Grand Caliph Hussein Obama will have your job and it will be faerie farts and Unicorn skittles for everyone!


11 posted on 01/21/2016 3:47:26 AM PST by oldvirginian (American by birth, Southern by the grace of God and Virginian because Jesus loves me. CRUZ 2016!)
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No worries Moonbeam, soon Grand Caliph Hussein Obama will have your job and it will be faerie farts and Unicorn skittles for everyone!


12 posted on 01/21/2016 3:47:31 AM PST by oldvirginian (American by birth, Southern by the grace of God and Virginian because Jesus loves me. CRUZ 2016!)
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