BRASÍLIA: Brazil's national jobless rate remained stuck at a record 11.2 percent at the end of May, the government statistics office said Wednesday.
The rate for March through May was unchanged from the previous trimester, with 11.4 million people officially out of work, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) said. A year ago, the jobless rate was 8.1 percent.
The grim jobs outlook comes as Brazil struggles through its deepest recession in decades, with the economy expected to contract 3.8 percent this year, following a similar slide last year.
Brazil has been hit hard by a worldwide slump in oil and other commodity prices, as well as the fallout from a massive corruption scandal centered on state oil company Petrobras and political paralysis as opponents of suspended president Dilma Rousseff seek her impeachment.
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