TV | Clear News | Tuesday 2.12.2025

Nursing jobs. Young people’s concerns. Book exports. Wednesday’s weather.

Nursing jobs

First, news about jobs in the nursing sector.

Welfare areas plan to lay off thousands of employees.

The Lapland Welfare Region announced yesterday that it may lay off 365 employees.

Hundreds of nursing jobs may also disappear in South Karelia, Central Finland and Pirkanmaa.

Welfare areas are laying off employees because they are forced to save money.

Welfare areas plan to lay off thousands of employees.

The trade union Tehy says that welfare areas have held over 60 change negotiations this year.

The next topic is the concerns of young people.

Finnish youth are concerned about war and poverty.

Young people are also concerned about the climate crisis. Many also fear that they will not be able to find a job.

This is revealed by a survey conducted by the Children and Youth Foundation. 2,400 young people responded to the survey.

More than half of young people believe that the future is good. However, confidence in Finland’s future has decreased.

Finnish youth are concerned about war and poverty.

According to the expert, it is important that young people can talk about their concerns.

Finally, the topic is book exports.

Finland sells fewer books abroad than the other Nordic countries.

This is the first time that Nordic literature exports have been compared.

Sweden exports the most books, followed by Norway and Denmark.

Finland is only in 4th place in book exports.

Finland sells fewer books abroad than the other Nordic countries.

The value of Finnish book exports was 3 million euros last year. Finland sells children’s and young adult books in particular abroad.

Still a weather forecast.

Wednesday will be mostly cloudy. There may be a little rain during the day.

It’s freezing in Northern Lapland. Elsewhere, the temperature is above zero.