The Philippine Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has said that unemployment among the Filipino youth has increased to 21.5 percent, with the number of unemployed workers increasing by 1.5 million workers this year. DOLE assistant secretary Dominique Tutay said that the COVID-19 lockdown restrictions affected its employment programs, as workers could not leave their …

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