THE unemployment rate rose in July from a month earlier, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported on Friday.

The country's jobless rate increased for the second consecutive month to 4.8 percent in July from 4.5 percent a month earlier. However, this is lower than the 5.2 percent in the same month last year.

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