Brazil registers record 14.4 million unemployed
Pandemic-battered Brazil registered a record 14.4 million unemployed workers in the three-month period to February 2021, up two million from the year before, officials said Friday. The unemployment rate for the period came in at 14.4 percent, said the national statistics institute IBGE. That was up from 11.6 percent the year before, when the coronavirus pandemic was just starting to be felt in Brazil. Latin America's biggest economy has been hit hard by Covid-19, which has devastated the country... Читать дальше...
