Here are some new facts to chew on
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January 26, 2013 at 3:28pm
Overall unemployment (across all age groups) is up to 26% in Spain.
In east Belgium, 11,000 jobs have been lost as Ford closes its plant there.
U Joseph jghidlna li dan il-pajjiz irid jerga jqum fuq saqajh. U la darba jqum fuq saqajh, trid inlibsuh par rubber bwiez tal-Gucci bhalma libset Michelle biex tmur tivvota bihom?
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Last week there was a discussion on Rai Uno about unemployment. According to Istat, for every 100 young people who are employed there are another 35 looking for employment.
The figures for unemployment mask a deeper problem – unemployment is highest among the young.
Spain’s figure exceeded 55% this week.
Suicides have also increased dramatically.
Ivvota Labour halli inkunu l-ahjar fosthom, u forsi naghduhom, fil-QAGHAD, fit-taxxi, u fil-faqar.
The PM’s claim that 20,000 jobs have been created is vindicated by official National Statistics Office figures.
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Very long link but it cannot be more explicit.
https://www.google.com.mt/publicdata/explore?ds=z8o7pt6rd5uqa6_&met_y=unemployment_rate&idim=country_group:eu&fdim_y=seasonality:sa&dl=en&hl=en&q=unemployment%20rates%20eu#!ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=unemployment_rate&fdim_y=seasonality:sa&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=country_group&idim=country_group:eu&idim=country:mt:it:el:es:fr:cy&ifdim=country_group&hl=en_US&dl=en&ind=false
In Spain unemployment for students fresh out of university is unbelievably high. If you are a student in your last years of university you´re damned already.
Anyone, young or not so young, trying to find a job is in for a very hard time. I know of many who have lost their job, none who have found a new one. But in our sunny island, we complain about buses.
Now this is the information I would like to see on posters and advertising – hard irrefutable facts.
The PN says it has created 20,000 jobs in five years but how does that compare with other Member States?
According to Google’s ‘Unemployment in Europe’ which is updated on a monthly basis, Malta holds a very honorable sixth place out of the twenty seven Member States, overtaking heavyweights such as France, Belgium, Sweden, Finland and the UK.
Because Malta has fewer unemployed, we don’t witness rioting in the streets and the unions are not wreaking havoc. This is why graduating students celebrate, the restaurants are chock-a-block and in summer all the bays are packed with boats and yachts.
This is how we can afford to give millions of euros to charity.
Instead of promising cheaper electricity bills, Labour should be promising guaranteed employment because if things take a turn for the worse after the 9th of March, if jobs are lost, what substance would cheaper electricity bills have?
Despite the antipathy that some PN Members of Parliament may have generated, and I say this with all honesty, we owe it to them that such a state of affairs exists. It is now about time they realize that they owe it to us, that such a situation has been achieved.
I am currently living abroad and met a random Spanish guy last night.
When he heard I was from Malta his face lit up. He has several Spanish friends who couldn’t find work in Spain but were successful in Malta.
Imagine me trying to explain to him that some people think we need a change in direction.
Some people seem to find it hard to understand the difference between the employment rate and the unemployment rate and the fact that even though unemployment in Malta is low we still have one of the lowest employment rates in Europe.
If you cannot find a job in Spain you cannot go to the Ibiza Minister to be boarded out and get an invalidity pension while still being in your 40s
@bob-a-job
What you say is absolutely true, but it will fall on deaf ears.
Labour will win this general election because of those PN voters who for some reason want to try Labour.
Gambling with our livelihood is no joke. Think about what you’re going to do.