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Unemployment figures have gone down over June and everybody is singing halelujah. They are supposed to go down because it's summertime and although tourist numbers are expected to be ten percent lower this year, that still leaves enough temporary job offers available. Because in Spain the government did not give all it's money to the banks but invested large part of it itself, it has managed to create close to 400,000 jobs in public services, resulting in a net increase of 30,000 jobs in this sector. That is a return of investment of eight percent on a five billion euros bill, not something that can be continued for very long, but at least the government does what it was elected for, act in the interest of the people and the people at the moment want jobs. All in all unemployment keeps touching twenty percent, but there's something interesting about this figure. In Spain they count the number of people that do not pay social security to estimate how many are excluded from this duty because they are without work or other taxable income. But these are official figures and they don't say anything about how jobless people are managing. It's like one of my students said: if you look around you, it's hard to believe twenty percent are without work. So there must be a lot of black work going on, a significant part of the Spanish economy is organized through networks that bureaucracy has no notion of.