More than half the adult population does not work

The situation has improved slightly since in Q1 the latter figure was 1125. "Unemployment has been decreasing since the beginning of the year, the number of jobs is growing and thus the improvement," said GUS spokesperson Witold Jagodziński. In Poland, 14.8 million of adult people work while 14.7 million do not work and are not unemployed: they include mainly pensioners, the disabled, housewives and those who do not look for a job. In addition, there is around 1.9 million unemployed. Some 52.8 percent or 16.6 million adult Poles do not work. From among that figure 6 million are less than 60 years old.  "Only labor can build economic growth. All social benefits can only reduce welfare," said Warsaw School of Economics professor Marek Góra. (Rzeczpospolita, p. B1) E.B.