World Economic News
World's Youth Sinking Into Poverty, Disease, Illiteracy
The World Bank, which today functions as an enforcer for the IMF system, has set up a program to capture youth into its post-industrial outlook. Reporting that 85% of the world's youth, between 15 and 24 years old, live in the developing countries, the World Bank reports, in its underestimated calculations, that:
* some 238 million youth in the world survive on less than $1 a day;
* some 133 million 15-24-year-olds are illiterate;
* another 130 million children are presently not in school;
* young people represent 41% of those unemployed globally;
* about half of new HIV/AIDS infections worldwide are in youth under 25 years old. Almost 12 million youth already have HIV/AIDS, and in some of the hardest hit countrieswhich they leave unamedsome 75% of 15 years old are projected to die of AIDS in the future!
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