Unemployment Surges Around the World, Threatening Stability.

Authors :: NELSON D. SCHWARTZ; Reporting was contributed by Keith Bradsher from Taipei, Taiwan; Heather Timmons from New Delhi; Simon Romero
Jenny Carolina Gonzalez from Bogota, Colombia;
Maia de la Baume from Paris.
Source :: New York Times. 2/15/2009, Vol. 158 Issue 54587, p1. 0p.
Publication Year :: 2009
Abstract: From lawyers in Paris to factory workers in China and bodyguards in Colombia, the ranks of the jobless are swelling rapidly across the globe. Worldwide job losses from the recession that started in the United States in December 2007 could hit a staggering 50 million by the end of 2009, according to the International Labor Organization, a United Nations agency. The slowdown has already claimed 3.6 million American jobs. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]