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he unemployment rate was estimated at 30 percent at the beginning of this year with nearly half the jobless in long-term unemployment, according to the ‘Follow-up Labor Force Survey (LFS) 2022’ carried out by the Central Administration of Statistics (CAS). Almost a third of them had been looking for employment for two years or more. The CAS report shows that the unemployment rate of the 15-24 years age bracket jumped to 48 percent from