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Spain Offers To Pay Jobless Foreigners To Move Out

by Jerome Socolovsky, NPR
July 15, 2008

Hundreds of thousands of migrants worked in Spain during the housing boom. Now that the economy is slowing, many are jobless. Because they've been legalized, they are entitled to unemployment benefits. The Spanish government is now trying to pay jobless foreigners to leave.

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  • Morning Edition, July 15, 2008
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