Alarm as Honduras jobless rate hits more than 50 percent
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
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Unemployment has reached alarming proportions in Honduras. The number of people without jobs has almost doubled in recent years.
Currently 1.6 million Hondurans are without a job, some 53 percent of the economically active population.
More than 600,000 young people aged from 12 to 19 years old neither work nor study.
Original source (in Spanish): La Tribuna