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Polish unemployment steady at 5% in August: gov't

09.09.2024 15:30
Poland’s unemployment rate held steady at 5 percent in August, unchanged from July, the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy has said.
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There were around 773,700 people without jobs across the nation at the end of August, up by 7,300 from a month earlier, according to the government.

The state-run Statistics Poland agency (GUS) reported last month that the Polish jobless rate had inched up to 5 percent in July, from 4.9 percent in June.

Meanwhile, the European Unions Eurostat statistics agency, which uses a different methodology, estimated last month that unemployment in Poland stood at 2.9 percent in July, marking the second-lowest rate in the 27-nation bloc.

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Source: IAR, PAP