Unemployment high among Palestinians in occupied territories
International Labor Office released a report on Palestinian labor conditions in the occupied territories. According to the report, despite domestic output grew in 2004 after four years of recession in the Palestinian economy, unemployment rate is close to 26 percent (224,000 people), less than half of all men of working age and just 10 percent of women of working age are employed; youth unemployment is alarmingly 40 percent among 15 to 24 years old, and one in every 15-24 years olds and over half of those aged 25-29 are forced in "idleness, that is neither studying nor in employment." Moreover 57 of workers received monthly wages that is not enough to lift a family of two adults and four children above the poverty line. Click here for the complete report.
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