Érica Santana
Reporter Agência Brasil

Brasília – Federal deputy Walter Barelli (PSDB-SP), a former minister of Labor, says that the creation of jobs in Brazil is very slow. "We need a policy that puts job creation in the middle of the discussion," declared Barelli, adding that the problem is that 18,000 youths enter the job market monthly in a fruitless search for work. "We have not had adequate job creation policies since the 1990s."

Ministry of Labor data shows that since January 2003, when Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took office, over three million jobs have been created in Brazil.

Translator: Allen Bennett