Malacañang downplayed over the weekend the results of the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey that revealed a 1-percent increase in adult joblessness rate in June 2019, claiming that the rise was just “seasonal.”

“We attribute this uptick as seasonal since data gathering was conducted when students just recently graduated from their universities or colleges and started looking for employment,” Presidential spokesman Salvador

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