In Colombia there is the famous subsidy to the unemployed since the Act 789 of 2002, but it must be said, with a very poor result (from 2003 to 2007 only 351,000 subsidies have delivered amounting to 207 billion dollars) due mainly to the amount of requirements to obtain it and the low amount established. This measure already exists in United States where precisely in this year soared requests and where roughly 5 million people today receive this type of aid. The general increase in wages, starting with minimum wages, has been the measure always claimed by all trade unions in the world and today, finally, since the 1930s, is looking with optimism by the global ruling class as a resource that can actually help to overcome the crisis. However, companies around the world argue the economic crisis itself to shy away from the topic and instead displayed radicalizadas tendency to reduce its labor costs, perhaps now to provoke a more decisive intervention by States through policies of subsidy which make it possible to take such measures. The latest measures discussed are lowering direct taxes and the reduction of consumption or value-added taxes. With regard to the first was the same President Obama who began to move the issue from the campaign by promising a reduction in the order of 500 dollars per taxpayer and $1,000 per couple. This measure is recommended by the IMF for which, Furthermore, it should be generalized, timely, durable and sustainable. In terms of reducing consumption or value-added tax, this is considered an expeditious way to cause a drop in prices to the final consumer and thus encourage consumption. The measure tax is lowered to the consumption by 2% was adopted at the end of last year in England and is expected to get a one point increase in the rate of economic growth in that country. It sunset and see! The discussion of these measures must be fast because the time is running out and the crisis spreads by leaps, already causing damage that if allowed to reach a certain point will be not only devastating but almost irreversible. Original author and source of the article