The government is increasing the budget for short-time work from €5 billion to €7 billion. 458,993 people are currently on short-time work. In addition, a total of 534,256 people are registered with the Public Employment Service (AMS) as unemployed or are in training. That means there are 113,000 more people unemployed than last year.
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