Italy - Govt vows to act as unemployment reaches new high

con un desempleo de sólo un 12%.. hasta llegar al 30% de hispanistán aún les queda.. y que no se preocupen por la sociedad: las calles no arden, todos siguen disfrutando lo votado, y el país está "en la senda de la recuperación"..


Italy - Govt vows to act as unemployment reaches new high


Italy shed almost one million jobs between 2008 and 2013

(By Sandra Cordon) (ANSA) - Rome, February 28 - Reducing Italy's "shocking" rate of unemployment must be the government's highest priority, Premier Matteo Renzi said Friday after the latest figures showed that unemployment in January hit a record 12.9%.

National statistical agency Istat also reported that some 478,000 jobs were lost in Italy in 2013, the worst year since the global financial crisis of 2008-2009, with an average annual jobless rate of 12.2% last year.

The new year got off to an even more dismal start, with the January jobless rate up 0.2 percentage points over December, Istat said.

Between 2008 and 2013, a total of 984,000 jobs in Italy were lost to the economic crisis - something that is "shocking," Renzi posted on his Twitter account during a meeting of his cabinet.

"Unemployment is at 12.9%. Shocking numbers, the highest for 35 years," tweeted Renzi, who has previously described Italy's unemployment rates as "merciless and devastating".

"That's why the first measure will be the Jobs Act," which Renzi, who formed his executive only one week ago, proposed last month before the leader of the Democratic Party (PD) became premier.