Amid good (guarded) news from Europe and good (guarded) news from the United States on the economic front, there’s bad news coming from Spain: unemployment is continuing to rise. One of the protest movements (The Indignants movement) there is believed to have partially inspired Occupy Wall Street:
Note that in Spain as in the United States they are now talking about a “lost generation” of young people who are finding their dreams and hard work most likely cannot be translated into making a living. Some demonstrate and some in Spain realize that they need to go abroad.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.