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A New York Times article on the success of Podemos, a new anti-austerity political party in Spain, referred to the “hints of recovery” in Spain. In the last year, the unemployment rate in Spain has fallen by 1.0 percentage point to its current level of 25.3 percent. At this pace of recovery, the unemployment rate in Spain should fall below 10.0 percent just before 2030.