Europe's lost generation: how it feels to be young and struggling in the EU
Viola Caon left her Italian home to find work. Now she returns to see how her former classmates are faring… and in the week that shocking figures showed how badly Europe's youth is being hit by the unemployment crisis, we also talk to hard-hit twentysomethings in Athens and Madrid Italy's new prime minister, Mario Monti, has vowed to help the younger generation, promising among other things to hel
Opinion | The Age of the Superfluous Worker (Published 2011)
AMERICA, like other modern countries, has always had some surplus workers — people ready to work but jobless for extended periods because the “job creators,” private and public, have been unable or unwilling to create sufficient jobs. When the number of surplus workers rose sharply, the country also had ways of reducing it. However, the current jobless recovery, and the concurrent failure to creat
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アパラチコラで過ごす優雅な時間 メキシコ湾沿いの入り江に面した米フロリダ州の小さな町アパラチコラ。こじんまりした海辺のホテルに宿泊し、バーで新鮮なシーフードを味わえるほか、地ビールの醸造所もある。綿花や漁業で栄えたこの町には、グリークリバイバル（ギリシャ建築への回帰）様式の優雅な住宅が散見される。数キロの沖合に浮かぶセントジョージ島には白い砂浜が広がる。
スペイン：経済危機、抗議の若者、各地で座り込み - 毎日ｊｐ(毎日新聞)
【パリ福原直樹】スペイン政府の経済政策などに抗議する同国の若者が、全国で数万人規模の座り込み運動を続けている。経済危機にあえぐ同国の２５歳以下の失業率は４５％に達しており、若年労働者の不満は爆発寸前だ。 ２２日の地方選を前にネットを通じて呼び掛けられたもので、首都マドリードの広場には２１日夜、約３万人が集結した。雇用や住居の確保▽緊縮財政策の撤廃▽選挙制度改革などを要求。地方選では既存の大政党に投票しないよう求めた参加者も多くいた。一方、サパテロ首相は１９日「彼らの声を聞くべきだ」と理解を示したが、座り込みは第２の都市バルセロナのほか、セビリア、バレンシアなど１０都市以上に飛び火した。
Irish emigration worse than 1980s
Unemployment levels are so high that men in their late teens and early twenties can't afford to hang around. GAA, although played like a professional sport, is amateur. And the chance of national football glory in Croke Park is no substitute for a living. "Eight of our best players have emigrated and more of them are going after Christmas either to Australia to Britain," Banbury told me before Chr
Europe’s Young Grow Agitated Over Future Prospects (Published 2011)
Francesca Esposito has a law degree and a master’s and speaks five languages. She recently quit her unpaid job for Italy’s social security administration.Credit...Nadia Shira Cohen for The New York Times LECCE, Italy — Francesca Esposito, 29 and exquisitely educated, helped win millions of euros in false disability and other lawsuits for her employer, a major Italian state agency. But one day last
Unemployed claimants to face loss of benefits for refusing work
A tougher-than-expected squeeze on the unemployed is to be announced today as the jobless face the threat of losing all benefits for as long as three years if they refuse community work or the offer of a job, or fail to apply for a job if advised to do so. In the most severe welfare sanctions ever imposed by a British government, unemployed people will lose benefits for three months if they fail t
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