High increase of unemployment in Angers during the second quarter of 2012

The statistics of unemployment will not give trust to Angers inhabitants regarding next year. The latest figures published by the Pôle-Emploi agency of Angers notices an increase of the unemployment rate from 8.8% at the second quarter of  2011 to 9.4% one year later. Angers city, few by few, gets closer to the national average. Within the limits of Angers Loire Métropole, about 23 000 persons are jobless. 
 
According to local observers, those figures could worsening in the months to come given the closure of Angers Technicolor and its impact on sub-contrators. Among the most affected categories are the elder employees and he women. The turnover of companies looks also depressed because the number of temporary workers is declining (-9%) between July 2011 and July 2012.

If, of course, the present mood will be focused on Christmas and the end of the year during next weeks, the beginning of 2013 could be a little bit sobering. An soon or later, candidates for the municipal elections will have to do some proposals to get the city out of difficulties.