Unemployment Slightly Lower in Poland

The slight decline shows that people are taking public service jobs and other positions after doing job training and internships, the state-run office said Wednesday.

It says some 1.77 million people in this nation of 38 million were registered as jobless at the end of February, compared to 1.81 million in January.

Poland's unemployment rate has declined gradually since a 20.7 percent peak in February 2003.