Unemployment in Spain passes six-million mark for the first time

Jobless rate moves above 27 percent despite slowing recession

Homes in which nobody has work increase to almost two million

According to the National Statistics Institute’s Active Population Survey (EPA) for the period January-March, the number of people out of work rose by 237,400 from the previous three months to 6.202 million as the unemployment rate jumped from 26.02 percent to 27.16 percent, the highest level since the current series began to be compiled in 1976, just after the death of dictator Francisco Franco.

El Pais