首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
The numbers in the jobs report for February were bad, but the trends were worse. More than half Of the 4.4 million jobs lost sin
The numbers in the jobs report for February were bad, but the trends were worse. More than half Of the 4.4 million jobs lost sin
admin
2015-09-30
35
问题
The numbers in the jobs report for February were bad, but the trends were worse. More than half Of the 4.4 million jobs lost since December 2007, when the recession began, vanished in the last four months. 4’ The unemployment rate has also surged to 8. 1 percent last month from 7. 6 percent in January—and from 5. 0 percent when the recession began. The ranks of the unemployed now total 12. 5 million people. It’s fortunate, then, that the nation’s first line of defense against rising joblessness— unemployment insurance- was reinforced in the stimulus law that passed last month.
The law increases unemployment benefits by $ 25 a week and allows states to extend those benefits through the end of the year. It also provides $7 billion to the states to cover more than 500,000 workers often part-time, low-wage and female—who are denied jobless benefits under outdated rules that apply in many states. Those states, of course, must reform their systems to specifically include those workers and to bring their programs more in line with federal guidelines.
Congress and the Obama administration must also be prepared to do more as unemployment worsens as it inevitably will in this contracting economy. In 11th-hour wrangling last month, a provision was struck from the stimulus bill that would have provided Medicaid coverage to unemployed workers who do not qualify or cannot afford to stay on their former employers’ group health insurance. The measure should be reintroduced and passed into law.
Indeed, all job-related policies should acknowledge that employment is unlikely to turn around anytime soon. That’s because the economy’s other headwinds—the housing bust and the stock-market wipeout—will delay any labor market recovery. With both sales and prices for homes declining in most places, many people who might otherwise move to take a new job are compelled to stay put, especially if a sale would not bring in enough money to pay off the mortgage. With stocks tanking, many workers are likely to postpone retirement, impairing upward mobility for other workers and crowding out new entrants to the work force.
That means that in addition to providing relief for today’s unemployed, greater emphasis must be placed on job training and retraining and on better education at all levels. If a job slump is short and shallow, old jobs come back. If it is long and deep, like the current one, some old jobs never return and even some industries never revive. That makes it imperative to prepare as a nation for the prospect of a vastly different future.
The Obama administration is expected to ______.
选项
A、improve unemployed insurance
B、deter the economy from worsening
C、introduce an effective stimulus bill
D、protect people from losing their jobs
答案
A
解析
根据第三段中的“Congress and the Obama administration must also be prepared to do more asunemployment worsens….”和“a provision was struck…that would have provided Medicaidcoverage to unemployed workers…”,A应为答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/0XzZ777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Smoking,whichmaybeapleasureforsomepeople,isaserioussourceofdiscomforttotheirfellows.(1)_____,medicalauthorit
Smoking,whichmaybeapleasureforsomepeople,isaserioussourceofdiscomforttotheirfellows.(1)_____,medicalauthorit
Smoking,whichmaybeapleasureforsomepeople,isaserioussourceofdiscomforttotheirfellows.(1)_____,medicalauthorit
Eversincetheywerefirststagedin19thcenturyEurope,world’sfairshaveenabledpeoplefromaroundtheglobetovisitwondr
TheEconomistrecognizesthesetalentedpeoplethroughitsannualInnovationAwards,presentedinsixfields:bioscience,comput
Fatehasnotbeenkindtothewesterngreywhale.Itsnumbershavedwindledto130orso,leavingit“criticallyendangered”in
Asagiantofthestockmarket,Appleisunusual.Formuchofthepast20years,threecompanieshavealternatedintheroleof
ArecentWoodyAllenmovieMidnightinParisdeliversaslightlychangedversionofafamousWilliamFaulknerquotation.Faulkne
Thatpeoplehavepersonalitiesgoeswithoutsaying.Petownerswillquicklyarguethattheiranimalshavepersonalitiestoo.Yet
随机试题
常用的食品冷藏方法有:冰块冷却法、空气冷却法、真空冷却法等,其中使用最多的方法是
A.解离多,再吸收少,排泻快B.解离多,再吸收少,排泻慢C.解离少,再吸收少,排泄快D.解离少,再吸收多,排泄慢E.排泄速度不变在酸性尿中弱碱性药物
患者,女,45岁,以反复关节疼痛为主诉就诊某院,诊断:类风湿关节炎。患者的描述中,下列哪项符合该患者关节疼痛的性质
某城市居民人均月收入自2006年3月1日至2006年9月30日由1200元增加到1300元,某类商品住宅的需求量由16万套上升到20万套。则用中点法计算该类住宅需求的收人弹性为()。[2006年考题]
经纬仪主要由()组成。
有关危险房屋鉴定标准的有关表述下列错误的表述是()。
纳税人不能按照税法规定的纳税期限缴纳税款,( ),可申请延期纳税。
家庭财产保险中一般可以承保的标的有()。
你被一家公司任命为人事经理,人事部的同事们都对你存有戒心。此时你会()。
设矩阵则线性方程组Ax=b解的情况为().
最新回复
(
0
)