As politicians continue to tell us that the economic situation is improving and the crisis is over, unemployment figures for October show an increase of 98,906 with a total of 3,808,353 people out of work.
October is traditionally a bad month for unemployment and this one was no exception. It followed two other bad months in August and September.
Another 20,870 joined the ranks of the unemployed in Andalucía in October, bringing the total for the region to 844,400.