Unemployment in the West
西方国家的失业情况
A LITTLE geographical imagination helps to conveythe scale of joblessness in the West. If the 44mpeople who are unemployed in the mainly rich members of the OECD lived in one country, itspopulation would be similar to Spains. In Spain itself, which has the Wests highest joblessrate , the number of people without work matches the combined population of Madridand Barcelona. In America the 14m people officially jobless would form the fifth-most-populousstate in the union. Add in the 11m underemployed, who are working less than they would like,and it is the size of Texas.
一张小的地理图片便能有助于映射出西方国家的失业情况。在经济合作组织中,如果一些主要的发达成员国有4400万失业人口居住在一个国家,这就相当于西班牙的总人口数。而就西班牙本身而言却有着西方国家最高的失业率,达到21%。这些没有工作的人口加起来相当于皇家马德里和巴塞罗那两城市人口的总和。在美国,官方统计的失业人口为1400万,足以组成该国的第五大州。另外还有1100万未充分就业的人口,这相当于田纳西州的人口规模。
The landscape is not uniformly bleak. Germany, for example, now has a lower jobless ratethan before the financial crisis. But in most of the rich world the proportion of peopleunemployed, though down a bit from its peak in 2009, is still alarmingly high, even as fearsmount that several countries may be slipping back into recession. And the human cost of theeconomic crisis is paid largely by those who are out of work, for joblessness increasesdepression, divorce, substance abuse and pretty much everything that can go wrong in a life.
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