Canary Islands will intervene to tackle "the chronification" of unemployment in people over 45 years of age without education

Fernando Clavijo has said that it will be "one of his priorities" and has hinted at fiscal measures that he has not gone into detail about.

September 26 2023 (17:12 WEST)
Job Center in Arrecife
Job Center in Arrecife

The President of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, stressed this Tuesday in the plenary session of the Regional Parliament that the Government will act "surgically" to attack "the chronification" of unemployment in the islands, which is mainly embodied by people over 45 years of age without education.

At the request of the deputy of the Nationalist Group David Toledo, Clavijo has expressed the concern that exists within the Government of the Canary Islands because "it is beginning to occur" the phenomenon observed in the previous crisis of 2008: those who join the labor market are basically young people and prepared people.

Meanwhile, long-term unemployment is consolidated among people with less education and older age, which leads to "condemning those families to be with non-contributory pensions, "chronicling poverty".

"If we do not intervene surgically, we will not be able to continue advancing in poverty data" and the GDP per capita will continue to be "below Europe and Spain", he warned.

That said, he has guaranteed that the Government of the Canary Islands will "work intensely" to tackle this chronicity, which will be "one of the priorities" of his cabinet, hinting at fiscal measures that he has not gone into detail about. 

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