It is heartening to read a little bit of good news about an easing in unemployment in the country, giving us a break from our daily dose of gloomy headlines about what ails Philippine society.

We welcome with relief the report by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) that its latest Labor Force Survey showed that overall unemployment rate in the country fell to 5.3 percent in January from 6.6 percent a year earlier.

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