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Analysis, Business, Economy, Globalism, Latest Trend

Micro-jobs and the emerging underground economy

July 2, 2011

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Futurist Thomas Frey:  As the musical chairs game of unemployment money runs out, and an increasingly large number of people are left without a seat at the jobs table, desperation begins to set in.

 

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Analysis, Big Problems, Economy

Europe’s ‘black economy’

July 2, 2011

unemployed Spain

Hundreds of thousands of people in Spain claim unemployment benefit when they actually have some kind of work.

In the Via Barsanti in the town of PratoShi, Italy, Songbin’s existence came to light one morning only when stunned residents found his body outside an underground parking garage surrounded by drab apartment blocks.

 

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