The long-term unemployed in Spain are still not benefiting from the affects of the incipient recovery in the country’s economy. According to the latest figures from the Active Population Survey (EPA), there are 1.2 million Spanish workers who have not had a job in the last four years or more.

Since the crisis began in 2008, when a global downturn was compounded by the collapse of Spain’s booming real estate market, the ranks of the long-term unemployed have multiplied by 12. The situation is particularly dramatic for 180,000 of them, given that they are living in households that are not receiving any kind of income at all, either generated by them or by other family members.

Unemployment hit its historic highs in Spain in 2013, with nearly 6.3 million workers without jobs. Since then the figure has fallen by more than a million. Practically all sectors have benefited from the improved situation, apart from the long-term unemployed

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