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In annual terms unemployment is also falling faster than in the rest of the country and the number of unemployed in construction is almost half than it had before the earthquakes.

Employment Councilwoman City of Lorca, Eulalia Ibarra has reported that unemployment in Lorca has fallen again in May, with a greater reduction of unemployed which has occurred in the same month in recent years.

Specifically, there has been a decrease of 38 people last month, representing a reduction in unemployment in Lorca 814 over the existing one year ago.

Ibarra has stressed that, once more, "the annual data confirm that Lorca goes faster than the region and the rest of Spain in job creation, because with a decrease of 10.89% unemployment almost double the drop of 5 , 98% that occurred in the regional average and exceeding the 7.82% of the rest of the country. "

In this sense, the mayor noted that although in this time period unemployment has fallen in all sectors, unemployment is still concentrated in the service sector, which is an area in which more has declined over the last 12 months, taking now 335 fewer people on unemployment rolls than a year ago.

Employment The mayor stressed that "we must keep working more and more intensity because this line stops in Lorca 6,659 people remain, but we remain one of the municipalities in the region with the lowest percentage of unemployed population and we have the best figures unemployment since November 2009 ".

In fact, the number of unemployed in the construction sector is 688 people less than before the earthquake, which shows that the work being undertaken in the municipality employ people of Lorca.

In this regard, it should be stressed that "the trend in this sector has invested so much so that we have less than half of unemployed in the construction of which came to be in the worst moments of the crisis in this sector. And all thanks to the abundant especially public works that is running in the city, which allows us to further improve the economic activity of other sectors in parallel. "

However, it should be noted that in the last month the sector has generated more jobs has been to services, followed by construction, those who had a previous job and industry

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca