Photo: Kleber Cordeiro/Shutterstock
Brazil generated 196,900 formal jobs in April, according to the Labor Ministry.
The agribusiness sector was the only one to have reduced its number of jobs, with 1,000 firings overall. Domestic labor, an important gauge of Brazil’s economic situation, remained stable.
The new report is long overdue, having been slated for release in May. The government claims the delay was due to processing issues within Dataprev, a publicly-owned data company that the Bolsonaro administration wants to privatize.
Last week, official statistics agency IBGE reported that the unemployment rate had dropped to 10.5 percent — a 0.6-point decrease from the previous month and the lowest rate since February 2016.
The average entry monthly salary rose by 0.79 percent to BRL 1,906 (USD 398). However, it went down for domestic workers (-3.88) and people in retail (-0.31%).
The city of Rio de Janeiro estimates that a Madonna concert this Saturday on Copacabana…
Latin America’s trend of banning opposition candidates from elections has caught on in an ever-growing…
The São Paulo City Council on Thursday approved legislation authorizing Brazil’s largest city to sign…
The preliminary report on AI regulations presented to Brazil’s Senate last week provides a middle-of-the-road…
In 2000, Formula 1 great Michael Schumacher had just racked up his 41st race win,…
Overall, the worldwide economic outlook has improved according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and…