Crisis & work, unemployment started to rise 12.7%. Youth: the … – Quotidiano.net

Rome, March 31, 2015 – The economic figures are in the swing: the optimism of these days is shattered against the wall of the last Istat data on employment: in February in fact returned to growth unemployment in Italy.

 After the descent of December and January, the unemployment rate last month, is increased by 0.1 percentage points to 12.7% coming back , the same value in December and increased by 0, 2 points compared to February 2014. “We are still in a phase where there is instability,” said the Mayor.

YOUTH DRAMA – particularly youth unemployment rises again: in February the rate unemployment aged 15-24 rose to 42.6%, up 1.3 percentage points compared to January. The number of unemployed youth increased by 1.7% on a monthly basis ( + 11 thousand ).

In February there are 868 000 young people employed, 40 000 in less on the previous year and 34 thousand less than in January. The youth employment rate falls to 14.6% as well. At the same time the inactive grow up to 4.4 million children, an increase of 35 thousand units in a year and 20 thousand units in a month. The rate of youth inactivity touches so 74.6%.

IN EUROPE – According to Eurostat, in February unemployed Europeans were 23.887 million, of which 18.204 Eurozone respectively , 91 000 and 49 000 fewer than in the previous month , and 1.547 million less than in February 2014 (643 000 in the Eurozone).

 Countries with more unemployed are always Spain (23.2%) and Greece (26%, December figure) while those with the lowest rate are Germany (4.8%) and Austria (5.3% ). In Italy, the rate is 12.7%. In the US, the February figure is 5.5%. Remains high rate of youth unemployment: in February, 4.850000000 of Europeans under 25 did not work (21.1%), of which 3.245 million in the euro, or 22.9%. Italy is still one of the countries where the phenomenon is more pronounced, with 42.6%.

BRUNETTA – “Istat communicates rising unemployment in February 2015, especially youth. Renzi, in spite of Jobs Act “, writes on Twitter Renato Brunetta, leader of Forza Italy in House.