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EU poverty growing due to long-term unemployment

EU poverty growing due to long-term unemployment

Jerome Hughes

Press TV, Brussels

New data from the European Commission shows that 12 million EU citizens have been out of work for more than one year. That’s the largest number ever recorded in the bloc. A meeting of EU employment and social affairs ministers has heard that the crisis is feeding a growing problem of poverty and social exclusion. 


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