Latest Canarian unemployment figures

[poker]

Interesting graph where you see that the resession is still increasing and a recovering in the short time is clearly utopic .

Its just not as bad (yet) as after the death of general Franco in 1975
(when 5,97 mililion peaple were seartching for work).

[El Profesor]

Interesting graph .........

Frightening graph .........

[Janet]

And it has risen again. February's figures released today show a further 1,957 people out of work in the Canaries, bringing the total unemployed in the islands to 291,474. The province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Tenerife, La Gomera, La Palma and El Hierro) suffered more than Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote): in SCT, 1,163 more people are unemployed than in January, bringing the total to 136,767, whereas in LPGC, the number rose by 794, bringing the eastern province's unemployed up to 154,707.  JA

[Janet]

On the day when Spain's unemployment statistics nationwide were officially announced to have hit a new record high of 27.2%, equating to six million people out of work, Canarian figures themselves were released showing 17,200 more unemployed in the islands during the first quarter of 2013, leading to an awful rate of 34.27% here, a total of 385,600 people out of work. Only Andalusia with 36.87 % and Extremadura with 35.56 % have worse figures throughout Spain.

Between the two Canarian provinces, Las Palmas has 209,100 unemployed, a rate of 35.24%, and Santa Cruz de Tenerife has 176,500, 33.18%. The regional statistics also show that two out of every three people out of work are now officially long-term unemployed: all 243,300 of these have been seeking work for more than a year. They also show that 118,000 households, 15% of the total, now have every single member out of work. JA

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

There's a certain other forum having to do with Tenerife I keep tabs on mainly to see if there is something I need to know which I have missed elsewhere.  One of the most fascinating things is the number of threads started by people all over Europe, stating their intentions to move to Tenerife as a single, couple, family with school age kids etc.  They are inevitably very hard workers, willing to take any job, know it won't be easy, but would rather be poor in the sun than poor and miserable in the snow.  99% of the time they speak no Spanish but by gum, they are willing to learn.  I reckon there are 2-3 of these per week.  Time after time I watch the goodhearted faithful of that forum kindly try to tell these people that unless they have thousands of euros to support themselves, they should not come, and their sage advice is rebuffed each and every time.  It is a wonder that some of these people still care enough about humankind to bother telling these people the truth. 

When the unemployment figures are as Janet has reported, you have to wonder why people who will never land secure employment here continue to want to flock here. 

[Michael]

When the unemployment figures are as Janet has reported, you have to wonder why people who will never land secure employment here continue to want to flock here.

And then 6 months down the line you see the same people, in Tenerife by this time, selling off house contents.

Very sad.

[Nova]

The sun has always had that effect on people sadly, it melts their common sense.  You can see it in action at TFS arrivals 

[poker]

Translated ;

Eva , Where do you think we are ?

Adam , In the Canaries don`t you see we are nude without work or house and they say we are in paradise .

[poker]

Spain has to think about a temporalery move out of the Euro .

That is the only solution .

Or we are going towards the same  situation Argentina had till 2002 when they held on to the dollar to keep their peso high .

[Janet]

The figures in the previous post below were for the first quarter of 2013, i.e. up to the end of March. Now, April's figures have been released and show it has gone up in the Canaries yet again, a further 1.42%, equating to 4.152 more people out of work, the largest rise of any of the Spanish autonomous regions.

Also up is the figure of those who are beyond the end of their help and in receipt of no income whatsoever. There are now a further 4,350 people in that situation, a total of 130,314 – that's 130,314 people on no assistance at all. Nearly half – 44.68% – of the registered unemployed in the islands are without any income. How are these people supposed to live? It is worth noting, too, that Spain's next budget has reduced the amount needed for unemployment benefit: the Government knows that there will be fewer people receiving paro as they fall off the end of their entitlement. The problem is that they're not falling into a job.

Nationally, only the Canaries, the  Comunidad Valenciana, and the Ceuta and Melilla enclaves in north Africa, saw rises. Throughout Spain, it fell ever so slightly, less than 1% on average, but at least a fall, and brings the national figure back under the psychological 5 million barrier ... only just, though, at 4,989,193. JA