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A woman receives the Sinovac coronavirus disease vaccine at Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro January 18, 2021. ― Reuters pic
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RIO DE JANEIRO, May 1 Pandemic-battered Brazil registered a record 14.4 million unemployed workers in the three-month period to February 2021, up two million from the year before, officials said yesterday.
The unemployment rate for the period came in at 14.4 per cent, said the national statistics institute IBGE. That was up from 11.6 per cent the year before, when the coronavirus pandemic was just starting to be felt in Brazil.
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Brazil s President Says Country Is Broke
01/05/21 AT 10:43 PM
With state subsidies to fight poverty now ended, Brazil s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday said his country is broke and he is unable to do anything about it, attributing the crisis to the press-fueled coronavirus.
The subsidies which have kept millions of Brazilians from destitution ended as the pandemic, which has killed almost 200,000 people in the country, only worsens. Brazil is broke, boss, I cannot do anything, the former army officer said, responding to one of the supporters who greeted him in front of his official residence in the capital Brasilia.