The difference between where it is and 5.4 percent is 9 million Americans without work.
Others are suppliers which find themselves without work when their clients turn to lower-cost manufacturers abroad.
"Young people are without work, but there is a lot of work to be done, " he says.
The collapse of the construction market has left more than 4.7 million people in Spain without work.
Jobless school-leavers of all grades find themselves worse off than their parents, without work and apparently without a future.
The report warns that graduates without work experience will struggle to get jobs no matter how good their grades.
Now in the rich countries there are many millions of people without work.
On unemployment, the rise of 18, 000 in the number of Germans without work compared with forecasts of a 5, 500 increase.
Some 40 percent of those questioned said they had been without work for a period of time in the past 3 years.
Sixty per cent of 16-24 year olds are without work - although many get by doing a few turns in the black economy.
You know what happens when a plant closes and hundreds of your members are suddenly without work and an entire community is devastated.
More than 12 million Americans are officially in jobless lines, and about 40% of them have been without work for more than six months.
It revealed that long-term unemployment was also growing, pointing out that a third of Europe's jobless had been without work for more than a year.
Haitian officials complain that foreigners focus too much on the camps, and that displaced people will not move to new homes without work and services.
However, unemployment is lower than it was at the same time last year and the longer-term trend is for fewer people to be without work.
More than 4.1m Germans remain without work, 10.5% of the total.
There is - under development - a youth guarantee scheme, where after four to six months without work there will be the promise of training or an internship.
College students and recent graduates without work are buying huge orders and selling them to their friends and on Taobao (a Chinese online consumer marketplace similar to eBay).
"In some sectors of the society, those without employment, without work, sometimes they have to join armed groups to earn a salary, to be able to survive, " Bohorquez said.
Stimulus money has already made life brighter for Charles Ojuri, whose small construction firm was without work for seven months, until he was hired to clear trees around I-215.
Despite the robust growth of the French economy, few within the government expect the 35-hour week to perform job-creating miracles for the tenth of the labour force still without work.
Having just come back from Madrid, my fear for Spain is that its extreme problems will become background noise as young people adapt to life without work, enlivened by occasional protest.
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The official figures paint a resolutely grim picture of a country where a quarter of the workforce cannot find a job, and where almost half of young South Africans are without work.
While most family-business owners will tell you that working incessantly is simply a means of ensuring an enjoyable lifestyle for their family, a little drilling down reveals the truth: They feel worthless without work.
But as we emerge from a recession that has left millions without work, we have an obligation to consider every additional, responsible step we can take to encourage and accelerate job creation in this country.
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But the French government, which says it expelled thousands of Roma this year and in 2009, says it is acting in accordance with EU law by repatriating Roma who have been in France for more than three months without work.
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