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-- a _kt75 | post supporting information  💾 _download: server 1 | server 2 Inside Sustainability: Facts, Figures, Bullshit - Part I: Unemployment [_kt75 | reflections 01.1/2013] The first quarter of 2013 sees a further worsening of the job markets world wide. Accordingly, the official unemployment rate for Europe (Jan 2013) is reported with 11.7% (growing), for the USA 7.6% (indifferent), Australia 5.6% (growing), Asia 4.4% (growing). Whereas the booming countries in Asia still report low unemployment rates, Europe as well as the USA struggle with constantly high or growing job cuts. In particular the European crisis-hit countries Portugal (17.6% ↑ ), Spain (26.2% ↑ ), Italy (11.7% ↑ ), Greece (27.0% ↑ ), etc. report climbing (official) unemployment rates [ 1 ]-[ 4 ]. As analysed elsewhere, the official unemployment rates rarely reflect the real conditions [ 5 ]. Applying the conservative correction factor c f (includes also socially critical/precarious job arra...

-- a _kt75 | reflection  _download Paper: server 1 | server 2 Keywords Gen uine s ustainable development, sustainable employment, unemployment, unemployment rates, precarious job conditions. Summary Facts and figures - that are vehicles typically used to promote, convey and enforce interests in a more or less reliable way. This series of _kt75 | reflections provides facts and figures on the facts and figures with a particular focus on ‘sustainable development’. Essentially, it aims to put facts and figures in a realistic and reliable context to each other and tries to interpret the rationale behind the facts and figures and the way they are supplied. For demonstration purposes selected important facts and figures of four individual cases are surveyed: _Part I - Unemployment : discussing exemplary the situation in Switzerland and Germany.   _Part II – Alternative Energy : analysing the technical, environmental, economic and geo-political aspects of the so-called...