BREAKING: More Filipinos were able to find work in March, data from PSAgovph reveals.
National Statistician Dennis Mapa announced on Thursday an unemployment rate of 7.1% for the month, translating to 3.44 million Filipinos out of work. This is lower than the 4.2 million jobless in February, equal to an 8.8% unemployment rate.
Mapa noted that the latest monthly survey covered March 8 to 27, which was before the government imposed the strictest enhanced community quarantine classification in Metro Manila, Bulacan, Rizal, Cavite and Laguna — otherwise known as NCR Plus — in a bid to curb rising COVID-19 infections.
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