Unemployment rises in July to 8.4 percent…

The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs announced on Monday that unemployment in the Czech Republic was up last month by just under half a percentage point to 8.4 percent. In July 2008, unemployment in this country totaled 5.3 percent. The number of unemployed in the Czech Republic rose last month by over 22,500 to 475,560 people. The areas with the highest unemployment rates were Most in North Bohemia and Karviná in North Moravia, while Prague continued to register the lowest number of jobless in the country, with an unemployment rate of just over three percent.