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Unemployed Philippines: Bahala na

by reynz on January 3, 2009

11 million Filipinos will be out of work
Former Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno said that millions of Filipinos would either go unemployed or be underemployed as the export sector would continue to slow down. The number? 11 million. That’s almost the entire population of Metropolitan Manila.

Electronics: Layoffs planned
The electronics sector currently employs about 420,000 workers, the [...]

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Read my lips: How prepared are you if you lose your job?

by reyna08 on April 7, 2008

It?s the Economy! Stupid!
That?s one great campaign line that propelled Bill Clinton back to the White House. I still remember that line. Very smart. Very intelligent. Very catchy! Indeed, its our US economy stupid that has not been performing very well for the past couple of years, that it is now slowly beginning to hit [...]

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