Brazil jobless rate dips from record in August-October
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Brazil's jobless rate has fallen slightly to 14.3 percent after setting three straight record highs because of the coronavirus pandemic, the government said Tuesday.
Unemployed people look for job opportunities at a governmental workers service department (CAT) in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on June 11, 2019. (Photo: AFP)
That figure for the August-October period in Latin America's largest economy is down 0.3 percentage points from the previous stretch.
Brazil measures its jobless figures in rolling periods of three months.
The decline ended a run of nine straight increases in the unemployment rate here.