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| Financial crisis will cost 20 million jobs: UN |
| 2008-10-21 |
| Twenty million people will be rendered jobless by the end of next year as a result of the impact of the financial meltdown on the global economy, a United Nations agency said on Monday. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 If you work in the finance sector you may be screwed, but that seems to be on a cyclic gorge and burst type setup. The companies I've been interviewing with say they have more work than they can field and need to hire more people. But the construction and engineering businesses are built on the premise of producing something useful to mankind, so maybe that's the difference. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-10-21 11:40 |
| #2 UN Cutting Back. Waiters, Chefs, Hookers Hardest Hit... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-10-21 10:16 |
| #1 None of which will be part of the bloated self important UN bureaucracy. They will however forgo their ever increasing expansion, thus recasting it as a 'loss'. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-10-21 07:43 |