{"id":727124,"date":"2010-04-30T12:32:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T16:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10005197"},"modified":"2010-04-30T12:22:49","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T16:22:49","slug":"ouch-spain-has-20-unemployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/727124","title":{"rendered":"Ouch: Spain Has 20% Unemployment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/4-30-2010%2012-19-23%20PM-thumb-250x167-39913.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>The overall unemployment rate in the EU is about 10%, but Spain is being especially hard hit by the economy and has reached 20%. Ouch.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Spain&#8217;s unemployment rate has hit 20% for the first time in nearly 13 years, official figures have shown.<\/p>\n<p>There were 4,612,700 people unemployed in the country at the end of March, the national statistics agency INE said.<\/p>\n<p>Spain&#8217;s jobless rate has risen sharply during the economic downturn and is the highest in the eurozone. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> S&#038;P has downgraded Spain&#8217;s government debt based on its bleak economic outlook. <\/p>\n<p>According to WIkipedia other countries with around<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_countries_by_unemployment_rate\"> 20% unemployment include Bosnia and Herzegovinia, Gabon, and East Timor.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/business\/10093123.stm\" >Spain unemployment rate hits 20%<\/a> [BBC]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The overall unemployment rate in the EU is about 10%, but Spain is being especially hard hit by the economy and has reached 20%. Ouch. The BBC says: Spain&#8217;s unemployment rate has hit 20% for the first time in nearly 13 years, official figures have shown. There were 4,612,700 people unemployed in the country at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-727124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-339O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}