“The country's unemployment rate has reached 95.6% from a very low of 70% to 80% during the pandemic.”
What Vera Files found
The country's employment rate as of March 2024 was at 96.1%, up from 95.3% for the same period last year. Employment rates during the pandemic, from 2020 to 2023, were between 89.7% and 95.7%.
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In short
Larry Gadon made this claim around 17 May 2024. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 24 May 2024, 7 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Larry Gadon has 17 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 13 of them false or fake, 4 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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