YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT: RED ALERT in Ragusa. 
While our country is busy talking about the legal and personal affairs of Berlusconi and the center right of our city is busy thinking about alliances for the next elections, we learn that the rate of youth unemployment in Italy has grown to 29% (Istat). Unfortunately, this is the highest rate since 2004. The sample considered by Istat affect young people up to 24 years, so I believe the situation is worse since there are many unemployed people between 25 and 35 years, not to mention the female unemployment which is certainly at higher high. The precariousness, insecurity, mobility, the decline of the job for an indefinite period, the lack of protection, the low wages, are all elements of deep reflection. Hundreds of thousands of young people from private companies to professional live each day the drama of an unstable and unprotected work, young "professionals" under the shadow of a pseudo-self-employment actually carry out work without rules or safeguards, but especially without the guarantee of adequate training for the type of skills training for which they are working. Young entrepreneurs, owners of commercial premises can be found today to address the crisis affecting our country and our city, all alone having fight with the many and long bureaucratic procedures that actually lead to discouragement and insecurity. Not to mention, the business of the old town who find themselves fighting against the policies of "senseless" implemented by this administration in favor of shopping malls, and then the supermarkets.
This is the bleak picture that emerges from the many complaints and concerns on the part of many young Ragusa, but no one notices. A generation with no certainty of present and future lives. To remedy this, we want to set policies and concrete actions: provision should be granted a discount on the charges or the infrastructure costs for new production facilities or an extension of themselves in more years than expected. For existing activities could provide a discount for those who always takes a young man from Ragusa, on municipal taxes. At the same time you could start vocational training courses financed by the City and begin a process of early retirement for city employees to put new energy into the administrative machinery.
addition, you should implement a practical and effective policy aimed at traders in the historic center, because we do not want to see their failure, we do not want to see the "shops" to close because of the inadequacy of this administration that, in recent years, penalized the center, rather than revalue.
We, with our candidate for mayor, Sergio Guastella, we think it is necessary to sustain employment through specific policies, because the work is a right but also a freedom. We are committed, although we are in full election campaign, that will change this reality in Dubrovnik, we believe that such a problem regarding the uncertainty about the future of new generations must be resolved as soon as possible. We are working together with young people, collecting their proposals, their testimonies and their complaints, to try to find concrete solutions for the good of all.
Valentina Spata
