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PHL unemployment rate at 3.9 percent in March: PSA

(Eagle News)–The country’s unemployment rate rose to 3.9 percent in March, the Philippine Statistics Authority said on Wednesday, May 8. Based on PSA data, this is a 0.4 increase from the  3.5 percent unemployment rate registered the month before March, and translates to two million unemployed people aged 15 and above. The employment rate in March was recorded at 96.1 percent, lower than the 96.5 percent recorded in February. The underemployment rate, meanwhile, was  at […]