Jobless Rate: Enrico Letta

Enrico Letta: Italy's overall jobless rate and youth unemployment edged up in April to the highest levels on record, data showed on Friday, with the youth jobless rate at 40.5 percent. Reducing unemployment in the midst of Italy's longest recession since World War Two is likely to be no easy task, according to Reuters. Letta, who came to power in April after two months of political deadlock, has made tackling unemployment a priority and pushed for it to be a central theme at a European Union Council meeting at end-June and TRENTO, Italy - Italy's Prime Minister Enrico Letta said on Saturday his government aims to reduce youth unemployment to below 30 percent in the next few years with a mixture of fiscal breaks and different contracts for young employees. "Our goal is to bring the youth unemployment below 30 percent," Letta said speaking in the northern city of Trento. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.