Some 2m jobless workers may lose benefits by the end of 2010, and perhaps 4m or more will lose them by April.
其中大约2百万失业工人将在2010年底失去救济,大约4百万或更多的失业工人会在明年4月份失去救济。
The unemployment rate fell in that month by nearly half a point, to 9.4%, but that was mainly because so many jobless workers gave up and stopped looking.
当月失业率下降近0.5个百分点,达到9.4%,但是这主要是因为不少失业人员放弃了找工作。
But the number of jobless workers will leap from an average of 3.5m in 2009 to 4.1m in 2010, forecasts the IAB, the research arm of the Federal Employment Agency.
联邦就业局研究机构预测,失业人口平均水平将从2009年的350万升到2010年的410万。
Another report on Thursday showed a small drop in the number of newly jobless workers last week.
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