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失业
Unemployment
In addition to joblessness, of course, by the working of supply and demand, when you have a larger number of people unemployed, wages do not rise at the normal level, so that we had last year a drop in real wages.
当然,除了失业之外,由于工作的供求关系,当有更多的人失业时,工资不会在正常水平上上涨,所以我们去年的实际工资有所下降。
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There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.
棚户区没有失业。每个人都工作。六分之一的人在那里。很快就会超过这个数字。
All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.
所有的失业补偿都应与职业培训要求挂钩。事实上,99周是副学士学位。
Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.
失业保险是吃白食者的带薪假期。
There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
新闻编辑室里没有作家区。只有失业问题。
Being out of a job can erode people's confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment as a signal that something is wrong.
失业会削弱人们的信心和可能性;而且,雇主往往不公平地将长期失业视为出了问题的信号。
When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
当我们失业时,我们被称为懒惰;当白人失业时,这就叫做萧条。