Unemployment falls to 11.4%. But CEI: “The Church does not see the decline” – Il Giornale

the rate of unemployment in March down to 11.4%, its lowest level since December 2012. Compared to February, according to the latest ISTAT report, there is a drop of 0.3 percentage points, while compared to March 2015, the decline is 1.1 points. The unemployed thus decreased to 2.895 million units, a decrease of 63 thousand units compared to February (-2.1%) and 274mila (-8.6%) over March 2015. It also improves the rate of youth unemployment that in March fell to 36.7%. This is the lowest figure since October 2012. “Pace of critical professionals – celebrate Matteo Renzi – these data demonstrate that the Jobs Act does” .

in March they return to grow the busy with 90,000 people working in more than in February and 263,000 more than in March 2015. in March, as stated in the report of the ‘ Istat , has touched quota occupied 22,578,000 (+ 1.2% compared to March 2015, up 0.4% over February). The employment rate rose to 56.7%, an increase of 0.2 percent on February and 0.9 points over March 2015. They return to grow even employees who have increased by 75 thousand units of February and on the 295mila March 2015. the same statistics office points out that those employed in general have grown by 90 thousand units over the month and 263mila year. “Thanks to incentives for open-ended contracts, despite the sharp reduction in the benefit from 2016, the employed ‘permanent’ rose by 42 thousand units over the month and 280 thousand on the year – continues in decumento – employed completed increased by 34 thousand units over the month and just 15 thousand on the year “.

the most heartening is perhaps what concerns the unemployment rate in the range between 15 and 24 years. Rate that, in March, decreased by 1.5 points compared to February and by 5.4 points compared to March 2015. “In the January-March quarter – reads the Istat report – the rate of youth unemployment decreased by 0.9 percentage points from the previous quarter “. It should however be noted that although the ‘ Employment grow in all age ranges, this trends there for 25-34 year olds who with 59.3% of employment rate marked a decline compared to February (-0.1 points) and no change of March 2015. “For younger people – concludes the Mayor – the employment rate rose to 16.1% (+ 0.2 points on the month, up 0.9 points on the year), for 35-49 years, the rate rises to 72% (up 0.4 points on the month, up 0.3 year), while for the elderly (50-64 years) the employment rate rose to 57.7%, an increase of 0.3 points on the month and two points on the year “.

“Now Italy has changed to: we have the opposite sign, at last” . Renzi has welcomed the results on the labor market: “Merit of the reforms, of course. But above all, about the enthusiasm and energy of entrepreneurs and workers” . However, he admits: “It is not enough, of course. There is work, still, to restart this country” . But the cardinal Angelo Bagnasco , president of the CEI, it crushes: “The observatory of our parishes and of our Christian communities not yet recorded this improvement, which we all hope” . At a conference on the ethics of the work under way in Genoa, the cardinal explained that in the parishes “queues of those looking for work, who are unemployed, or who have never been busy, continue greatly, not only for young people who are the big part, but also for middle-aged people who have family and economic commitments to be honored “.