900 people were losing their jobs on a daily basis in February 2012, pushing the unemployment rates to 21.7%. According to Greek Statistics Authority (ELSTAT) the number of unemployed in 1,070,724 people and the number of employed suffered a 8% decrease, when compared to February 2011.
Among the youth, younger than 25 years old the unemployment reached 53.8 percent.
PS And then some wonder why pro-bailout parties were rejected up to 68% by the voters….
I still wonder, yes. Because it is not about the bailouts. Without them the pensioners, unemployed and civil servants would not have any pay for months now. And those people would be all about starving in the streets. That they are not is the result of the bailouts.
It’s the idiotic tax-hikes without taking care of the fraud and failure of the state that is killing us.
But, who cares… scrap the bailouts and we can live off nothing… right? Like, indeed, more and more people now have to (like those now more than a year out of work and those who were self-employed).