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Presentation for California |
State Senator Mark DeSaulnier |
June 23, 2012 click here |
According to Article 23 of the United Nations
Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
(http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/) employment is a universal human
right.
Unfortunately, there is no mention that governments shall
report unemployment or
underemployement accurately or in a timely
manner. Or, in some cases, at all.
Currently, the national annual
unemployment rates for 227 countries on the United
States Central
Intelligence Agency World Factbook (there are several copies - the
base is
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/IMAGSTS_Main.html)
can be summarized as 105 are current (2011); 11 are from 2010; 10
from 2009;
11 from 2008; 5 from 2007; 7 from 2006; 39 from 2000 to
2005; 11 from last century;
and 28 countries declined to provide
data. The United States is one of a very few
nations that provides
unemployment data by sub-country (state) and sub-subcountry
(county,
parish or census area) on a monthly basis. In many, if not all, theories
of
macroeconomics unemployment has been regarded as a critical
measure because it is
correlated with poverty, taxes, savings rates,
and belatedly, real estate values. The US
Department of Agriculture
administers Supplemental Nutrional Assistance Program (SNAP) which
replaced foodstamps in 2008. The number of Americans on SNAP has doubled
from 25 million in 2007 (now one in six) and the costs are now $6
BILLION per month.