Figure 1.9 juxtaposes the recent increases in total and long-term unemployment with the levels of public spending on active and passive labour market programmes in 2007. Several of the hardest hit countries were particularly low spenders, including Estonia, Greece, the Slovak Republic and the United States (all of which saw unemployment rise by more than 5 percentage points and also saw large increases in long-term unemployment). Labour market spending in 2007 was even lower for the six countries where the unemployment rate increased by more than 5 percentage points, just 0.9% on average.