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Italy has highest inactive rate in European Union

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People wait at a bus station during a nationwide general strike of public workers, started over the transportation industry by Italian trade union USB (Unione Sindacale di Base), in central Rome on October 21, 2016. © AFP

Max Civili
Press TV, Rome

A new report by the European Commission has found that Italy has the highest number of unemployed people moving into economic inactivity in Europe. It shows that 1 out of 10 jobless Italians are so discouraged, after years of economic crisis, that they have even stopped looking for jobs. 


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