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Demonstrators shout slogans while carrying signs reading "We are not going away" and "We won't pay for this crisis" during a protest, Madrid, Spain, Sunday, April 7, 2013. Andres Kudacki/AP/Press Association Images

Spain's unemployment rate shoots to record 27.16%

More than six million people in Spain are now without work.

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 Thursday.

The unemployment rate jumped from 26.02 percent in the previous quarter. The number of unemployed climbed by 237,400 people to 6.2 million, the National Statistics Institute said.

Spain’s youth unemployment rate is now 55.7 per cent, according to Eurostat.

- © AFP, 2013

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    Feb 3rd 2012, 8:06 AM

    Online shopping is the way forward

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    Feb 3rd 2012, 9:26 AM

    What they don’t look at in these stats is that for a lot of online deals sites such as Groupon, you have to enter an email address just to get on to the website and see the deals – while it’s still a ‘signup’, it might not have the same level of purchasing intent.

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    Feb 4th 2012, 8:06 AM

    visit http://www.mydealpage.ie – it gives an instant overview of all the deals sites. Or if you do decide to sign up with your email address you’ll get just one daily email with all the deals!

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    Feb 3rd 2012, 8:00 AM

    the journalist a few articles back might nite be happy with the use if a woman in the picture to sell the story

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    Feb 3rd 2012, 8:02 AM

    Not. stupid tucking autocorect

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    Feb 3rd 2012, 11:09 AM

    Fatcheese is the business. The ‘deals’ sites are pretty shite unless youre a woman, they are heavily loaded with beauticians & hairdressers etc. very little for men on them.

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    Feb 3rd 2012, 2:50 PM

    Online deal sites = shit people dont want so we’ll sell it cheap

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