Italy's unemployment rate was
steady at 11.5% in January, basically the same as in December
and largely unchanged since August, according to provisional
data released by Istat on Tuesday.
The national statistics agency added that the unemployment
rate was 0.7 of a percentage point down on the same month last
year.
It said 2.951 million people were unemployed in January,
stable with respect to December and 169,000 fewer than January
2015.
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