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Euro Unemployment & the UK scores

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    Euro Unemployment & the UK scores

    Spain's unemployment rate hit 17.4% at the end of March, figures have shown, with the jobless total now having doubled over the past 12 months.
    In the past year, two million people have lost their jobs taking the total out of work to just over four million.
    The Bank of Spain recently predicted the jobless rate would reach 19.4% in 2010, as the recession took hold.

    Germany's slump risks 'explosive' mood as second banking crisis looms
    A clutch of political and labour leaders in Germany have raised the spectre of civil unrest after the country's leading institutes forecast a 6pc contraction of gross domestic product this year, a slump reminiscent of 1931 and bad enough to drive unemployment to 4.7m by 2010.
    Michael Sommer, leader of the DGB trade union federation, called the latest wave of sackings a "declaration of war" against Germany's workers. "Social unrest can no longer be ruled out," he said.
    The UK 1980's recession peaked at 3.2 million unemployed - 12.5 % of the work force from a population of 56 million

    The UK now has a population of over 60 million, so at what figure will the UK unemployment figure peak and what % of the workforce will be affected this time around.
    How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think

    #2
    Not more than 4%. They'll all be in "training placements".

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      #3
      I hope they don't fire you Troll...

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