
In the United States, an unemployment rate nearing 9% is serious cause for concern. In Haiti, 40% would be a cause for jubilation. In the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country, employment [as some countries] know it, barely exists. Statistics are difficult to pin down for the Caribbean nation, but some estimates put Haiti’s unemployment rate as high as 70 percent. [i] Notwithstanding, according to the CIA World Fact Book Haiti ranks […]