Duque: About 3 million jobs have been recovered – Government – Politics

From Bosconia, in Cesar, President Iván Duque highlighted this Thursday that since last April in the country nearly 3 million jobs have been recovered. And in that sense he assured: “We continue looking for more jobs.”

The president came to that town to deliver 48 kilometers (30 new and 18 improved) of the Ruta del Sol 3 project, a key way to link the interior of the country with the Caribbean coast.

For Duque, with the results revealed this Wednesday by the Dane, which show that the unemployment rate fell to 16.8, in his government they saw “a light of optimism.”

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The reason is that “When the hardest, most cruel part of the pandemic came, we had a national unemployment rate of 20%, a little more”.

For the president, with the figures revealed by the Dane it was shown that “the reactivation is underway, that we closed the month of August with an unemployment rate that is 16.8%) -it is still high-, but we are recovering ”.

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