unemployment data are “good news” that certainly will “trust and hope that the Portuguese are still at an unemployment situation,” said the Minister of Social Security.
In response to unemployment data, Pedro Mota Soares repeated the words uttered minutes earlier by Paulo Portas. “Portugal have reached an unemployment rate at 18%, then down to 17%, then to 16%, then to 15%, then to 14% and now to 13%,” said the Minister of Social Security statements reporters in the day it was known that the unemployment rate fell in April, from 13.2% to 13%.
Pedro Mota Soares considers that these figures are “good news” that certainly will give “confidence and hope the Portuguese that are still in unemployment situation.” “We are having a meaningful reduction in unemployment. Unemployment is going in the right path. And we want the rate continues to decline,” said Minister of Social Security and stressed the evolution of the employed population and unemployment among women and young people.
The National Institute of Statistics released this Tuesday, June 2, that in April, the unemployment rate fell from 13.2% to 13%, which corresponds to a least August 2011.
Contrary to what came of it for a few quarters, this decline in unemployment was accompanied by an increase in employment. According to INE, in April, Portugal had 4,486,300 employed people. That is, more than 22 100 March (0.5%). Again, the improvement was felt in all groups:. Adult (15 400), men (13 400), women (8600) and Young (6600)
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