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 Italy's unemployment rate rose to 12% of the labor force in July from 11.9% in April, 
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and was up from 11.7% a year earlier,
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a national survey during the first week of July showed 
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the number of job seekers was 2,888,000 up from 2,822,000 in April, and from 2,853,000 a year ago. 
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 The unemployment rate was by far the highest in the southern, so-called Mezzogiorno region.
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 The southern unemployment rate rose to 21.3% in July from 21.2% in April and from 20.6% a year earlier.
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369,000 more people were employed in July than in April.
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