The unemployment data are once again a good sign of economic recovery. For the first time in 14 years, during the month of October unemployment has fallen in Catalonia, where unemployment has fallen for the eighth consecutive month. Normally the effect of the end of the summer tourist season makes October, in terms of employment, a bad month. This time this trend has been broken. It is true that we still have more than 42,000 people on furlough who are not counted as unemployed - a fact that forces us to qualify our optimism - and that it will be in the coming months when we will see if these furloughed workers end well or badly. But even so, the trend is positive, to the point that the overall Catalan labour radiography is now better than it was before the pandemic. Affiliation to Social Security, ie job creation, has also been strung this month, with 21,171 new jobs, the second strongest growth in October since 2004 began the historical series.