Lack of employment prevents young people from becoming emancipated

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This is reflected in the latest report of the Emancipation Observatory prepared by the Youth Council with data provided by all the autonomous communities.

We are facing eloquent data that reflects a

for too long without the successive governments showing themselves capable of placing youth in a prominent place in the

public schedule.

There are two main reasons why the vast majority of those who have not yet turned 30 continue in the family home: the high rate of youth unemployment, one of the greatest scourges of our economy;

and, closely related to the above,

, both in the buying and selling market and in the rental market.

Young Spanish

, according to the European Statistical Office (Eurostat), being the sixth latest of all the countries of the European Union -the average is 26-.

Nothing to do, for example, with the Swedes, who leave their parents' residence before even turning 20 years old.

Our reality is also far from proportion.

Because, for example, in France, 67% of young people between the ages of 18 and 29 do not live with their parents;

percentage reaching 80% in Finland.

Among the causes there are some cultural reasons.

A) Yes,

, something that in our country is still exceptional.

But, returning to the report, it should be noted that between 2006 and 2010, 25% of young people lived on their own.

The drop of almost 10 points to current levels indicates that in the last decade the socioeconomic conditions for them have worsened.

The

that hit them in a special way are addressed by the public authorities with more resignation than a transformative impulse with the consideration of a "structural problem", a euphemistic catchphrase that does not hide the inability to reverse the situation.

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It is the second highest rate among the Twenty-seven and doubles the average figure for the EU and the euro zone.

The fact that half a million people under the age of 25 are the so-called

, that is to say, that they neither study nor work, gives a good account of the great problem we are facing.

The consequences of these low levels of emancipation are not few, among them its direct effect on our having the

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And, while the population ages, the so-called intergenerational pact has been broken, with young people finding it increasingly difficult to enter the adult group in economic terms and with intermediate segments of the population that can hardly continue to carry a welfare system that

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