UNEMPLOYMENT in the country worsened this year with 2 million more unemployed Filipinos, a data released by the National Statistics Office (NSO) said on Friday.

In their 2013 Annual Labor and Employment estimates—combining the quarterly Labor Force Surveys (LFS) in January, April and July—the NSO said that the unemployment rate of the country increased by 0.3 percent from 7 percent in 2012 to 7.3 percent, amounting to 2 million persons without work.

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