The masses of people lining up at unemployment offices in Spain shrank slightly in April to fewer than five million, raw data showed on Monday, a result hailed by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's government.
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy will on Monday defend his revised time frame for deficit cuts before the National Executive Committee of the country's ruling Popular Party.
Spain's unemployment rate soared to a new record of 27.16 percent of the workforce in the first quarter of 2013 as the number of those without jobs surpassed six million, official data showed on Thursday.
Spain's jobless rate continued to rise in the first quarter but at a slower rate than in previous years, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Wednesday.
Unemployment continues to be the main issue of concern for most people in Spain but corruption and fraud are also gaining ground, the latest poll from the social research institute CIS has found.
Spain will seek deeper into recession this year and the unemployment rate, which is already at a record 26 percent, will rise further as it continues to feel the fallout of the collapse of a property bubble, the central bank said on Tuesday.
The income gap between the richest and poorest people in Spain has grown by 30 percent since 2006 in the wake of the country's sharp economic downturn, the Spanish branch of Catholic charity Caritas said on Wednesday.
The organizers of a Madrid job fair had to call in police on Wednesday when hundreds of would-be job seekers discovered the event's venue was too small to accommodate everyone.
The government of Madrid says a massive new casino complex known as EuroVegas is the answer to the country's economic woes but not everyone is sold on the idea.
