The Department of Employment Services released the latest jobs figures this morning, and despite last month’s modest improvement, things are once again looking worse. The April unemployment rate for the District of Columbia was 9.9 percent, up 0.2 percent from the March 2009 rate and the exact same as the February 2009 rate. The figure also shows a 3.5 percent increase in the number of unemployed D.C. workers over the same month last year. Nationally, the unemployment rate for April was 8.9 percent, an increase of 0.4 percent from the March 2009 rate. Back in December, D.C. CFO Natwar Gandhi predicted the District’s unemployment rate would reach 10 percent by 2010.