What if this was just the start of trouble on the employment front?
After ten months of crisis and while it reached its lowest level since 2008, with 8.1%, unemployment is now at 9%.
In other words, the economic and social consequences of the pandemic have already wiped out in three quarters two years of constant improvement… And forecasts for the end of the year are unfortunately not enthusiastic. .
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According to the projections of the various economic conjuncture institutes, whether it is INSEE, the Banque de France, or even the OFCE, the unemployment rate could reach the 11% mark at the end of the year.
This is the strongest level ever recorded in the country.
If proof were needed of the violence of the crisis, it is therefore there.
And the government is aware of it.
During the summer, or without taking into account the consequences of a second epidemic wave, the executive was already counting on an unemployment rate exceeding 10%.
In any case,
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