Unemployment rate worsens, hits 7.7% in Jan.
Friday, March 20th, 2009MANILA, Philippines—The number of jobless Filipinos was 180,000 higher in January than a year earlier, pushing the unemployment rate up to 7.7 percent from 7.4 percent, according to the National Statistics Office (NSO). The jobs lost in the manufacturing sector alone accounted for 62 percent or 112,000 of the increase in ...