Minister looks for EU job funding as unemployment rate falls again

The unemployment rate declined to 19.3% in July, falling by 28,500 people last month Deputy Social Policy Minister Cezary Miżejewski announced. He expects the jobless rate to fall to 19-19.1% in August and remain at the level of 19% at the end of this year. If Miżejewski's figures are confirmed by the Central Statistical Office (GUS) in mid-August, the July decline in unemployment will have been more than twice as large as that recorded in July last year. "In August, September and October unemployment will be falling, in line with tradition. We want to use EU funds to stop the rapid growth of unemployment, which usually takes place at the beginning of the year," said Miżejewski. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p.17) T.J.