By TED CORDERO, GMA News
Published March 9, 2021 9:20am
Updated March 9, 2021 10:22am The number or unemployed Filipinos rose by 1.6 million in January this year, results of the latest Labor Force Survey by the Philippine Statistics Authority showed Tuesday. At a virtual press conference, National Statistician Claire Dennis Mapa said the unemployment rate in the first month of 2021 stood at 8.7% or four million jobless adults - ages 15 and above. The January unemployment rate is the lowest unemployment rate since April 2020, when it jacked up to a record-high of 17.3% at the height of strict lockdowns to contain COVID-19’s spread. This is 1.6 million higher than the 2.4 million unemployed individuals in January 2020 and slightly higher compared to the October 2020 Labor Force Survey which saw the number of jobless adults at 3.8 million.
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