Showing posts with label poverty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poverty. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

RECESSION EFFECTS

"The global recession has driven 100 million more people below the poverty line and has caused 61 million more people to lose their jobs world-wide in the past two years, says a new U.N. report that Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was to present to the General Assembly on Wednesday."

Source: The Wall Street Journal, Joe Lauria, Wednesday, September 23, 2009, p A-5.