Anti Wage-Slavery Pro-Freedom Quotations Of The Week 949-951

Federal, state and local governments now employ 500,000 fewer workers than they did on the eve of the recession in 2007, the longest and deepest decline in total government employment since the aftermath of World War II.

Austerity Kills Government Jobs as Cuts to Budgets Loom
By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM
 New York Times
Published: February 26, 2013

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The unemployment rate in the euro zone edged up in January to another record, official data showed on Friday.
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there are few reasons to regard a recovery as imminent...
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The bloc’s debt problems, and the tax increases and government spending cuts that have been prescribed as the remedy, have sapped spending power, reducing business demand for labor.
Euro Zone Reports Record Joblessness and Low Inflation
By DAVID JOLLY
New York Times
Published: March 1, 2013
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… to me this problem is an obvious thing, yet everyone seems too indoctrinated with old morals and values to realize that freeing ourselves from work is what we should try to do, instead of trying desperately to find jobs for everyone because of how things worked in the past.
Comment Submitted by Sno on October 14, 2012
Future of Work: Finding Value in the Rejects of the Job Economy
h+ Magazine
By: Nick Meador
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