CBC.ca | Spain's unemployment 27.2%, tops 6 million - USA Today USA TODAY MADRID (AP) — With more than 6 million people unemployed for the first time, Spain's jobless rate shot up to a record 27.2% in the first quarter, the National Statistics Institute said Thursday, in another grim picture of the recession-wracked country. Unemployment misery deepens in Spain and Greece Spanish unemployment tops 27%, protestors muster - GlobalPost Spanish Unemployment Rate Hits 27.2% |