Earlier that day, the National Statistics Office (NSO) reported the country's employment rate dropped to 7.5% in April, equivalent to 3.08 million Filipinos from 6.9% or 2.8 million in the same month of 2012.
"My understanding is there is a net loss of something like 21,000 jobs―I was told it was just that few. The major issue there is the agriculture sector because of the delay in the planting season," Aquino said.
栽植時期を遅らせた農業セクターが主な原因だ。
Data show job losses in the agriculture sector offset the jobs generated in the industry and services sectors. Industry generated 224,000 jobs, while services added 380,000.
Bloomberg switched his registration in 2001 and ran for mayor as a Republican, winning the election that year and a second term in 2005. Bloomberg left the Republican Party over policy and philosophical disagreements with national party leadership in 2007 and ran for his third term in 2009 as an Independent candidate on the Republican ballot line.