Thursday, September 20, 2007

1/3 of the World's Workers are Poor and jobless

A web-site I visit often posted the following (www.laboreducator.org):
"An International Labor Organization (ILO) report reveals that one in three workers in the world is either unemployed or earns less than the equivalent of $2 a day. The ILO report, which was released on Labor Day, shows 195.7 million people are unemployed and nearly 1.3 billion people earn less than $2 a day per family member.
"The ILO estimates that half of all working people worldwide work for jobs that carry a higher risk of being unprotected, without health care or retirement security and without a voice at work."

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