Spain: Unemployment tops 4 million as “hunger queues“ continue in Madrid

Subscribe to our channel! The number of unemployed in Spain topped four million in February, while thousands wait in ’hunger queues’ to apply for free food as their only option, as footage from Madrid showed on Wednesday. According to the Ministry of Labour, this is the highest unemployment number since 2013 and has been directly linked to restrictions imposed in the wake of the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many businesses have been forced to close due to declining sales. Meanwhile, the so-called ’hunger queues’, where people affected by the COVID-19 crisis wait for food, continue to be seen in major Spanish cities. “The profile of the people... you see architects, you see nurses, you see people who you would never think could be in a ’hunger queue’,“ explained Inmaculada Gimenez, spokesperson of Fundacion Madrina. After recording the worst number in its recent economic history in 2020, with an 11 per cent drop in GDP, Spain