RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Unemployment in Brazil reached 14.7% between January and March this year, equivalent to 14.8 million people looking for work, the highest level recorded in the country since 2012, the government reported Thursday, May 27.
The unemployment rate in the first quarter of the year increased 0.8 percentage points compared to the last three months of 2020, when it stood at 13.9%, according to data released by the state-run Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).
The data reflect the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil, which is the country . . .
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