http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/04/more-than-one-million-excess-workers-on-cubas-government-payroll/1Cuban President Raul Castro estimates that the government and its enterprises employ more than 1 million excess workers -- almost one-fifth of the island-nation's entire formal workforce, The Miami Herald reports.
The newspaper's Juan O. Tamayo reports that Castro revealed the estimate in a speech on Sunday to the Cuban Communist Youth.
There are 4.9 million people working in formal jobs in a country of 11.2 million people, The Herald says.