Social entrepreneurship and social innovation in combatting unemployment

This dossier concerns social entrepreneurship and social innovation in combating unemployment. The amendments discuss the social and solidarity economy and social enterprises, poverty, social exclusion and long-term and youth unemployment after the economic and financial crisis, job creation for vulnerable groups, access to financing and public procurement, the EaSI programme, the European Social Fund, the Youth Employment Initiative, and a possible specific legal status for social economy enterprises.