"Non si toccail posto di lavoro!"
(Keep your hands offmy job!) That chant by demonstrators protesting dismissals by Montedison, Italy's giant chemical company, rang out ominously last weeka part of a Greek chorus that increasingly laments an economy gone sour. A glance at Italy's stained ledger:
> Unemployment stands at 7.4%, or 1.7 million out of a labor force of 23 million. Of the unemployed, more than 1 million are young. Parliament allocated $1.2 billion last year to provide between 500,000 and 600,000 jobs for unemployed youth, but the effort was an almost complete failure. Though 650,000 people signed up, there have been...
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