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Stagnation in Latin America Boosts Youth Unemployment to Highest Level in 20 Years

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Latin America's economic stagnation is rocking the labor market and affecting the youngest segment of the population with particular severity.

Unemployment among the under 25-year-olds - which is, along with informality, the great challenge of countries in the region in recent years - has become "a structural trait of economies," according to the Panorama of Labor of Latin America and the Caribbean, published on Tuesday by the International Labor Organization (ILO, a UN agency).

There are several warning signs on this front: the youth unemployment rate grew 0.3 percentage points in 2019, reaching 19 . . .

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