Worldwide Unemployment and Job Losses

U.N.: ’09 added 27 million jobless, By Bradley S. Klapper (AP), January 28, 2010, Detroit News: “Twenty-seven million people around the world lost their jobs in 2009, the U.N. labor agency said Wednesday, warning of a jobless spike in a report released on the opening day of the World Economic Forum. About 12 million of the newly unemployed were in North America, Japan and Western Europe, the International Labor Organization said. The jobless jumped by nearly four million in both Eastern Europe and Latin America, while unemployment rates were more stable last year in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. The figures point to the need for a ‘global jobs pact’ to boost employment around the world, the ILO said…”