Four interesting notes today

The first note is about the risk of social that runs the social security of Antigua and Barbuda. If the government continues its trend of not paying employee contributions into the Antigua and Barbuda Social Security Board of Control, social security would exhaust its funds in 2012 and could be declared in bankrupt.

The second piece of news refers to unemployment benefits in the Bahamas. The director of the National Insurance Board announced that he is looking for the possibility of extending the unemployment benefits for an additional month, but would first have to get approval from the Office of the Prime Minister.

In our third note we showed a map where you can see the statistics released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States. The map shows the change in state-by-state unemployment rate from the beginning of the current recession.

And finally, the fourth note, gives us relevant data from poverty in Panama. According to data from the Survey of Living Conditions 2008, one in three Panamanians is poor, but more alarming is that half of children aged 0 to 4 years are in poverty. There is a great inequality in the consumption in Panama, as 20% of the richest people consume 53% of the total, while the poorest 20% only 3.9%.