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[Aug. 11th, 2012|08:07 pm] |
Прорехи на джинсах
Немного сухих цифр:
"Extended jobless benefits end for 500,000 US workers
By Andre Damon
11 August 2012
As 13 million people in the US languish without work, the federal government has intensified its drive to shut off extended unemployment benefits, ending the only source of cash income for millions of families.
Over 500,000 people have lost extended unemployment benefits since the start of the year, and two million more are scheduled to lose their benefits on January 1, 2013.
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The scheduled final cutoff of the program is only the culmination of a longer-term phase-out of jobless benefits. In 2010, out of 15 million unemployed people in the US, 10 million received jobless benefits. Since that time, the number of unemployed has fallen by 15 percent, but the number of people receiving benefits has plummeted 46 percent. With 12.8 million unemployed, only 5.7 million are currently receiving benefits.
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But that only tells part of the story. In 1985, the average duration of unemployment was around 15 weeks. Now, it is 38.8 weeks.
Currently 40 percent of the jobless population have been out of work for six months or longer, while 30 percent have been unemployed for a year or more. Prior to the present recession, the highest-ever recorded percentage of people out of work for more than 6 months was 26 percent."
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/aug2012/jobs-a11.shtml
Население Афганистана - 28 млн. человек
Сирии - 20
То есть трудоспособных в этих странах, которых так настойчиво (изводя десятки миллиардов долларов) пытаются "освободить" США за тридевять земель, даже меньше, чем безработных в самой цитадели "демократии" :)
Может, этим американским бедолагам как раз денег, вбуханных в арабские пески да афганские пещеры, и не хватило. Для осуществления своего "права на стремление к счастью", записанного в американской конституции.
Но некогда задуматься - для Азии хочется конституций написать. |
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