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Exacerbated by trickle-down austerity, the Eurozone unemployment rate has risen to 10.9%
The European economy is tanking – and trickle-down austerity is to blame. New unemployment numbers show the 17-nation Eurozone now has its highest unemployment rate ever, at 10.9%. And, the two nations with the highest unemployment rates – Spain and Greece – just so happen to be the ones most hooked on austerity.
In Spain, budget cuts and massive government layoffs have driven up the unemployment rate to the Eurozone high of 24.1%. And Spanish youth unemployment is even worse – at a staggering 51.1%. And in Greece – the poster child of European austerity, the unemployment rate stands at 21.7% with more than half of all Greeks under 25-years-old unemployed. Another austerity-bitten nation – the United Kingdom – just officially sank into another recession.
Clearly – austerity – which involves taking money out of working people’s pockets – forcing them to spend less and contribute less in revenue to the government – is making the economic situation in Europe far worse. But the banksters and billionaires pushing austerity don’t care – just as long as they can squeeze the last bit of wealth left in Europe into their own pockets. But with Nicholas Sarkozy going down in France, the Dutch government collapsing, and civil unrest in the streets from Madrid to London to Athens – then austerity might be breathing its last gasp. Let’s hope.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... Libertarianism is dead (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: Libertarianism is dead
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Daily Take: Murdoch is willing to lie, cheat or steal for profit
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Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
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World AIDS Orphans Day and the impact of AIDS on children- Ann Pickar, Portland Area Global AIDS Coalition
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Tuesday's Daily Stack
Quote: "No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country" -- Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Hour One: State of Labor- Leo Gerard, President, United Steelworkers Union
The Big Picture- Sam Sacks, The Big Picture producer, progressive commentator
Red Cross workers situation in OH, labor in general- Al Mixon, Brotherhood of Teamsters-Ohio
Improve wages/working conditions for restaurant workers- Saru Jayaraman, Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC-United)
Occupy May Day- Ben Zucker, formerly Occupy DC now with OWS, NY and Rowland Miller, Occupy Wall Street PR working group.
Hour Three: "Occupy This Album" / Occupy movement- Jackson Browne, Singer/Song-writer/Activist
May Day March in support of L.A. trash workers- Axel Caballero, Founder/Producer-Cuentame
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