Spanish unemployment drops as peak tourism season picks up


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Among Spain’s strongest industries and job creators, tourism alone cannot be expected to pull the country out of its recession and provide jobs for 27 percent of its population.

Spain’s unemployment dropped in June at the start of the peak tourism season, with the government predicting the trend will continue as the worst economic slump in the country’s democratic history comes to an end. The number of people registering for jobless benefits fell by 127,248 from May to 4.76 million, the Labor Ministry in Madrid said today in an e-mailed statement. That is the sharpest decline on

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