You might have expected a deal that helped workers keep their jobs to play well in a country spooked by ballooning unemployment. Yet most voters hated it.

在一个失业人口膨胀，人人自危的国家，本以为这样一来，可以帮助工人保住工作，渡过难关，可是选民并不领情。

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Michigan, hit hard by auto plant closures, had the highest unemployment in the country, the Labor Department said overnight, rising to 14.1 per cent in May from 12.9 per cent in April.

劳工部昨晚宣布，密歇根州，因为汽车工厂的关闭而遭受重创，失业率从4月份的12.9%上升到五月份的14.1%，成为全国最高失业率的州。

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Unemployment is going up in that country instead of leveling off as claimed by some of the papers.

在那个国家失业人数正在上升，而不是象有些报纸声称的那样正在趋于稳定。

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