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Argentina: unemployment hits record figures
Argentina's unemployment rate rose to 7.9% in Q1 2025, the highest since Q3 2021, up 0.2% from Q1 2024 and 1.5% from Q4 2024, according to a report from the National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) released Thursday in Buenos Aires.
Unemployment in Argentina stood at 7.9% during the first quarter (January-March) of 2025, marking the highest level recorded since 2021 and the highest level under the administration of President Javier Milei. According to data from the Argentine National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC), this figure represents an increase compared to the 7.7% observed in the same period of 2024, despite the fact that the economy exhibits signs of re…
Unemployment rose to 7.9% in the first quarter of 2025 and interrupted the decline that it had been showing since the middle of last year, according to the figures of the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses. The data means a rise of 1.5 percentage points compared to 6.4% in the period October-December 2024. It also increased compared to the January-March quarter of 2024, although only 0.2 points. The new index interrupts the fall in un…
The general secretary of the CGT Chaco and the Argentine Health Workers Association (Atsa), Adrián Belloni, denounced that the employment situation in the province "has worsened drastically" since the start of the current national government and stated that the official unemployment rate "is not real." In contact with LA VOZ DEL CHACO, the leader warned that "every day a job is lost" and announced a nationwide plan of action from the private hea…
Unemployment in Argentina rose to 7.9% in the first quarter of 2025, adding 243 thousand new unemployed in the last two years. The deterioration is linked to the loss of formal employment, with almost 200,000 jobs registered less between November 2023 and March 2025. This is indicated by a report by the Institute of Thought and Public Policies (Ipypp), led by Claudio Lozano. “More than five million people seek employment every day in our country…
The governor of the province of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, questioned President Javier Milei today, after the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Indec) reported that the unemployment rate reached 7.9% in the first quarter of the year. “Everything goes according to the plan ... to the plan of the right, that is to say more inequality, less work and less production,” wrote Kicilof on social networks, where he shared a publication by …
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