Economy

How Brazil’s unemployment problem affects educated workers

Brazil’s unemployment rate is falling at a very slow pace, according to data published by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. The stats, with the mobile average of the last three months, show that since 2016, overall unemployment in the country hasn’t dropped below 12 percent of the workforce, or about one in eight.


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Marcelo Soares

Marcelo Soares is a Brazilian journalist specializing in data journalism and reader engagement.

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