By Pierce Oel A. Montalvo
The country’s jobless rate rose to a two-month high in October, hampered by the onslaught of typhoons that month, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported on Friday.
Preliminary data from the PSA’s Labor Force Survey (LFS) showed the jobless rate at 3.9% in October, higher than the 3.7% rate in the previous month but lower than the 4.2% a year ago.
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