At 50, he was forced to join the ranks of the unemployed.

他50岁时被迫加入了失业行列。

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Many young people worry that once they graduate from university, they will join the ranks of the unemployed.

许多年轻人担心他们一毕业就会加入失业大军。

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The trend will have "significant consequences for young people," as more and more join the ranks of the already unemployed, it said.

这种趋势将对年轻人造成严重影响，可能越来越多的年轻人加入到失业者行列。

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Growing unemployment poses bigger challenge provide a further challenge to the Thai Government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, The growing ranks of the unemployed which came to power in December of last year.

VOA: standard.2009.03.09

Under the present circumstances of high unemployment, the net effect would again be to reduce the labor supply, reducing the ranks of the unemployed not by helping them find jobs but by driving them from the workforce.

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The new employees to the extent that they came from the ranks of the unemployed would use the money from their jobs to buy more goods and services.

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In Germany, the ranks of the unemployed contracted yet again, this time falling by 17K. While not the decline expected, this figure still seems to indicate that labor conditions in the euro areas biggest economy are at least slowly improving.

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