Globe and Mail, April 12, 1994 Jobs Outlook "In the 1950s, Canada's rate of unemploymnent averaged 4.2 per cent, in the 1960s 5 per cent, in the 1970s 6.7 per cent, in the 1980s 9.3 per cent. So far in the 1990s it has been around 11 per cent. Average unemployment for the European Union is forecast at nearly 12 per cent this year. In the United States, unemployment is lower, but there has been a drop in real wages of nearly 10 per cent in the past decade. As one authority has written: The worldwide jobs crisis threatens not only global economic growth but the capitalist system itself." -- Arthur Kroeger, who recently retired as Deputy Minister from the Canadian Department of Employment and Immigration Sid Shniad
