Buenos Aires, February 16 (NA) – Amidst the labor reform in Congress, where the Senate has already approved the bill and the government awaits its consideration in the Chamber of Deputies, lawmaker from Union for the Patria Julia Strada stated that during the first part of the Milei administration, Argentina lost nearly 22,000 companies and 300,000 jobs. The lawmaker published a graph on her official X social media account, presenting the data that supports her argument. “According to data from the Superintendence of Labor Risks, a significant destruction of the productive and labor fabric was registered from November 2023 to November 2025,” she began writing in her X account, as a lawmaker and president of the Argentine Center for Political Economy (CEPA). What numbers did Strada present regarding the 'destruction of the productive and labor fabric'? According to the information she published on social networks, Strada indicated that 21,938 companies and 290,600 registered jobs were lost. She specified that, in that period, these figures decreased considerably by 892 and 17,993, respectively.
Argentine Lawmaker Claims 22,000 Companies Lost Under Milei
Amid debates on labor reform in Argentina, lawmaker Julia Strada presented data showing that in two years under the Milei government, the country lost nearly 22,000 companies and 300,000 jobs, citing official statistics.