Unemployment.

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Figures released early October showed that the number of unemployed is fast approaching 150,000 (3.7 per cent).

Long-term unemployed make up 17 per cent of the overall jobless figure.

Some 33 per cent of Swiss polled cited the worsening employment situation as their number one concern.

This is certainly true of 33-year-old Mark Schmidt, who lives in the eastern town of Einsiedeln and has been out of work for the past two years.

Schmidt is one of more than 150 people who are part of a new association for the long-term unemployed--the first of its kind in Switzerland. The association holds weekly meetings in an Einsiedeln church hall to discuss their situation, share experiences, network and...

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