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  COVID-19 likely to leave 3 million Pakistanis jobless

  World | June 06, 2020 10:08 IST

  An estimated 3 million people associated with industrial and services sectors of Pakistan are expected to lose their jobs, and the poverty level could rise to 33.5 per cent from the current 24.3 per cent due to the COVID-19 pandemic

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  US unemployment claims climbed by 1.88 million last week

  World | June 05, 2020 10:09 IST

  The number of US unemployment claims totalled 1.88 million last week as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to sweep the nation, the Labour Department reported.

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  Rupee plunged so much it surpassed PM Modi's age: Congress' Pramod Tiwari

  News | May 30, 2020 16:20 IST

  Criticising the Modi government on completion of one year of its 2nd term, Congress leader Pramod Tiwari on May 30 said the GDP growth rate in the country is the lowest today, and the value of Rupee has plunged so much that it has surpassed PM Modi's

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  1 in 10 Indian jobseeker lost job, most think layoff imminent: Naukri.com

  May 27, 2020 16:02 IST

  At least 1 in 10 Indian jobseeker has confirmed he or she has been laid off and nearly three in 10 jobsekkers fear a layoff is imminent, a new survey by naukri.com revealed on Wednesday.

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  South Korea registers largest drop in employment since 1999

  World | May 13, 2020 11:53 IST

  South Korea registered the largest year-on-year drop in the number of employed people in the country since 1999 due to the effects of the coronavirus epidemic, according to government data published Wednesday.

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  US unemployment surges to Depression-era level of 14.7 per cent amid COVID-19 pandemic

  World | May 09, 2020 7:45 IST

  The coronavirus crisis has sent U.S. unemployment surging to 14.7%, a level last seen when the country was in the throes of the Depression and President Franklin D. Roosevelt was assuring Americans that the only thing to fear was fear itself. And because of government errors and the particular way the Labor Department measures the job market, the true picture is even worse

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  US unemployment spikes to a Depression-era level of 14.7%

  World | May 08, 2020 20:57 IST

  The U.S. unemployment rate hit 14.7% in April, a level last seen during the Great Depression, as 20.5 million jobs vanished in the worst monthly loss on record — stark evidence of how the coronavirus has brought the economy to its knees.

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  30 million have sought US unemployment aid since coronavirus hit

  World | April 30, 2020 18:49 IST

  More than 3.8 million laid-off workers applied for unemployment benefits last week as the U.S. economy slid further into a crisis that is becoming the most devastating since the 1930s.

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  Nearly half of world’s workers at immediate risk of losing livelihood due to coronavirus’

  World | April 30, 2020 8:43 IST

  Almost 1.6 billion workers in the informal economy, nearly half of the global workforce, face an immediate danger of losing their livelihoods due to the continued sharp decline in working hours because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the International Labour Organization has said.

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  COVID-19 crisis likely to hit 29 lakh jobs in Indian aviation, dependent sectors: IATA

  Business | April 24, 2020 13:01 IST

  The coronavirus pandemic is expected to impact more than 29 lakh jobs in the Indian aviation and dependent industries, global airlines' grouping IATA said on Friday.

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  Coronavirus pushes US unemployment toward highest since Depression

  World | April 24, 2020 10:39 IST

  Unemployment in the U.S. is swelling to levels last seen during the Great Depression of the 1930s, with 1 in 6 American workers thrown out of a job by the coronavirus, according to new data released Thursday.

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  10% of America's total workforce now out of work as COVID-19 slams economy, 6.6 mn file for aid

  World | April 10, 2020 11:02 IST

  Almost 10% of America's total workforce is now unemployed since coronavirus slammed the economy as confirmed cases in the United States continues to rise. At present, US is the most worst-hit country due to coronavirus as positive cases have crossed 450,000-mark while over 16,000 people have died so far.

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  Coronavirus Pandemic: 16.8 million Americans out of work; Easter celebrations move online

  World | April 10, 2020 7:15 IST

  A staggering 16.8 million Americans lost their jobs in just three weeks, a measure of how fast the coronavirus has brought world economies to their knees.

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  Samajwadi Party stages walkout in UP Assembly over unemployment

  India | February 25, 2020 19:57 IST

  The Samajwadi Party staged a walkout in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly on Tuesday, accusing the BJP government of failing to fulfil its promise of providing jobs to the unemployed.

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  PM Modi didn't say a word on unemployment: Rahul Gandhi

  News | February 06, 2020 16:42 IST

  Congress leader Rahul Gandhi hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not talking about the main issue of unemployment and alleged that he was distracting people by talking about other things from Jawaharlal Nehru to Pakistan.

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  Unemployment figures likely to rise by 2.5 million in 2020: ILO report

  World | January 21, 2020 7:52 IST

  The ILO global report on employment and social trends shows that a lack of decent work, combined with rising unemployment and persisting inequality, makes it increasingly difficult for people to build better lives through their work, Xinhua reported.

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  One unemployed committed suicide every hour in 2018: NCRB

  India | January 10, 2020 22:01 IST

  One unemployed person committed suicide every hour during 2018 when a total of 1,34,516 suicides were reported in the country

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  People concerned about rising inflation and unemployment than CAA: IANS-CVOTER Poll

  India | January 01, 2020 3:07 IST

  People of India are more concerned about rising inflation and unemployment and not much about the Citizenship Amendment Act, IANS-CVOTER State of the Nation Poll 2020 has found.

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  Unemployment biggest worry of urban Indians: Survey

  India | December 27, 2019 14:13 IST

  Concerns about joblessness is on the rise in India as a new survey has revealed that unemployment is what worries 46 per cent of urban Indians the most.

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  Tamil Nadu: 7,000 graduates including MSc, BE and MCom apply for sanitary workers job

  India | November 29, 2019 12:25 IST

  The basic qualification for the post is that the candidates must know to read and write Tamil and must have passed at least class 10.