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The New York Times reported that the Czech Republic will offer a free plane ticket and $649 to foreign workers who agree to return home after losing their jobs in the economic downturn. Interior Minister Ivan Langer stated that many unemployed foreigners lacked cash to buy a ticket home because they had to pay bribes or excessive fees to agencies that had placed them in jobs.