GUS: unemployment rate fell to 10% in August

In line with the government's and experts' expectations, Poland's unemployment rate stood at 10 percent at the end of August, compared with 10.1 percent a month before, the Central Statistical Office (GUS) informed. In August 2014, the rate amounted to 11.7 percent of professionally active Poles. The number of registered unemployed totaled 1.563 million people. At the end of August, there were 97,900 job offers in job offices, thus 5,600 more than a month before. Earlier in August, the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy also estimated unemployment at 10 percent.