5 Jun, 2016 @ 12:45
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More than 12% of Spanish workers at risk of poverty and social exclusion

poverty in spain

poverty in spainAROUND 12.5% of Spanish workers are at risk of poverty or social exclusion.

New data from the Organizacion Internacional del Trabajo (OIT) shows the number increased by 1.6% between 2010 and 2014.

The 2016 global social and employment report recently found that 9.9% of employed workers are already facing poverty or exclusion, for the self employed that number rises to 25.5 %, representing an increase since 2010 of 1.5 and 1.2 per cent respectively.

It also found the overall risk of poverty rate in Spain is 22.2 %, 2.5 points more than in 2007.

That figure rises above 30% for the under 24`s.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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