The Councilor for Employment of the City of Lorca has stressed that in December unemployment fell in the municipality in 140 people, which means that in the last year there have been 9 monthly drops of unemployment and a fall of 9.66%. "
The Councilor for Employment of the City of Lorca, Eulalia Ibarra, reported this morning that "unemployment data in the month of December again consolidate the trend that in the municipality is believed more employment percentage speaking than in the rest of the Region And the country. "
With the ninth monthly decline in 2016, unemployment was reduced by 140 people compared to November and by 696 when compared to the same month of the previous year.
This means that in year-on-year terms in Lorca 9.66% of net employment was created compared to 8.95% regional and 9.54% of the rest of Spain, which means that we improve the figures faster. "
Ibarra expressed his satisfaction that "Lorca continues to lead job creation and we can talk about 1,962 net jobs created in the last three years, 2,522 in relation to the worst moments of the crisis compared to those now we have 31.15% less Of unemployment ".
Eulalia Ibarra stressed that "fortunately the annual decline in unemployment has occurred in all sectors, which means that the trend is consolidated that the improvement of the city and the national economy is translating into job creation."
The Councilor for Employment added that "these positive data show not only that the public and private investment being made to recover the city from earthquakes is giving Lorca work, but that the process of transformation, improvement and modernization of the Municipality has benefited all sectors, serving 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 employment in construction, but also wealth for the municipality, with economic activity in sectors such as Services, industry, agriculture 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