The number of unemployed fell in Lorca municipality in 72 people last month, 499 people last year and 2,382 since March 2013.
The Council of Employment of the City of Lorca, Eulalia Ibarra, stressed that "one month more Lorca offers better job creation data than the rest of the Region and the country. Specifically, in the municipality continues to drop unemployment, despite Which in the rest of Spain and the Region increased over the previous month, which means that in Lorca there is a faster growth in the number of people who stop being unemployed.
Thus, in November, the unemployment rate in Lorca again fell, this time in 72 Lorca with respect to the previous month, which means 499 unemployed less in the last year and 2,382 since March 2013. Ibarra explained that "although the data Year-on-year, both national and regional are positive, with a drop in unemployment of more than 8%, those of Lorca also move in that percentage.
The figures also show that in the last 12 months net employment has been generated in all sectors, with the number of unemployed in the agricultural and services sectors being the best since 2009 and the industry in the most positive situation since 2008. Deserves construction, an area where there is less than a third of unemployed than in 2010, and stood at the end of last month the lowest figure since November 2007.
As an added must be taken into account that, as has been achieved in recent years, since November 2015 unemployment has fallen in Lorca in 9 months, which is shown as a constant trend that only modifies slightly in very specific situations.
Eulalia Ibarra added that "these positive data show not only that the public and private investment made to recover the city from earthquakes has given Lorca work, but that the process of transformation, improvement and modernization of the municipality not only Has benefited Lorca companies, but has led to the creation of new business projects and the implementation of powerful companies from all sectors that continue to invest in the economic dynamism of the municipality with its own initiatives, beyond those directly promoted by the administration, which Have served as a revulsive. "
However, the council has stressed that "we still have large projects in progress, which as we have done so far, not only generate more jobs in construction, but also wealth for the municipality, with economic activity in sectors such as Services and feedback to the rest. "
The mayor has said that "as long as there is a stop in the municipality, the main priority of the administrations will be to help you find a job or to boost your own business project, for which we continue to increase the available means of advice, business incubators, incentives Economic, ... ".
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca