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  3. The stunningly slow pace of job creation, which sank to growth of just 32,000 in July, has provided new ammunition in an intense

The stunningly slow pace of job creation, which sank to growth of just 32,000 in July, has provided new ammunition in an intense

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问题     The stunningly slow pace of job creation, which sank to growth of just 32,000 in July, has provided new ammunition in an intense political debate over job quality.
    For months, Democrats have said that the long-delayed employment recovery was concentrated in low-wage jobs that paid far less than those that were lost. White House officials replied that the available data failed to settle the matter one way or the other.
    The data is still inconclusive. But the weakness in job creation and the apparent weakness in high-paying jobs may be opposite sides of a coin. Companies still seem cautious, relying on temporary workers and anxious about rising health care costs associated with full-time workers. Many economists say that over the long term, the most vulnerable positions are those at the low end of the wage scale that require fewer skills and are easily replicated.
    Even now, at a time when a disproportionate number of new jobs appear to be lower-paying ones, there has been growth in some high-income occupations like accounting, architecture and software.
    Yet the earnings gap between the highest-paid employees and the rest of the work force is still widening, as it has over most of the last 30 years. The trend is most striking in factories, which accounted for the bulk of job losses in the last three years and tended to pay above-average wages.
    In contrast to previous recoveries, when companies rehired a large proportion of laid-off workers, manufacturers have added only 91,000 jobs this year, having eliminated more than two million jobs in the previous three years.
    The largely permanent decline in manufacturing employment, which has been more acute after this recession than in previous ones, spans all levels from blue-collar workers through senior management. It has coincided with a bulge in the number of jobs in low-paying fields that are comparatively easy to enter: retail sales, hotel services and clerical work.
It can be inferred from the passage that
选项 A、Manufacturers have offered more jobs than they have eliminated in the past few years.
B、The earnings gap problems used to be small in the past few decades.
C、Republicans seem to be on a sticky wicket in job quality problems.
D、The write appears to be optimistic about manufacturing employment in future.
答案C
解析 文章开头就提到intense political debate，第2段暗示了Democrats提出的强烈质疑是针对Republicans的。纵观全文，也可以发现美国在job quality方面所面临的巨大困难。由此可以推断C应为正确答案。
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