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
Another month, another dismal set of job figures. America pulled out of its last economic recession way back in November 2001, y
Another month, another dismal set of job figures. America pulled out of its last economic recession way back in November 2001, y
admin
2009-05-21
81
问题
Another month, another dismal set of job figures. America pulled out of its last economic recession way back in November 2001, yet the country’s "jobs recession" finished only last autumn, when 2.7 million jobs had been lost since the start of the slowdown. Now, though economic growth has bounced back, new jobs refuse to do the same in this, the third year of recovery. In February, a mere 21,000 jobs were created, according to the official payroll survey, at a time when George Bush’s economists forecast 2.6 million new jobs for 2004 mounting alarm at the White House, and increased calls for protection against what a growing number of Americans see as the root of most ills: the "outsourcing" of jobs to places like China and India. Last week the Senate approved a bill that forbids the outsourcing of government contracts--a curious case of a government guaranteeing not to deliver value-for-money to taxpayers. American anxiety over the economy appears to have tipped over into paranoia and self-delusion.
Too strong? Not really. As The Economist has recently argued--though in the face of many angry readers--the jobs lost are mainly a cyclical affair, not a structural one. They must also be set against the 24 million new jobs created during the 1990s. Certainly, the slow pace of job-creation today is without precedent, but so were the conditions that conspired to slow a booming economy at the beginning of the decade. A stock market bubble burst, and rampant business investment slumped. Then, when the economy was down, terrorist attacks were followed by a spate of scandals that undermined public trust in the way companies were run. These acted as powerful headwinds and, in the face of them, the last recession was remarkably mild. By the same token, the recovery is mild, too. Still, in the next year or so, today’s high productivity growth will start to translate into more jobs. Whether that is in time for Mr. Bush is another matter.
As for outsourcing, it is implausible now, as Lawrence Katz at Harvard University argues, to think that outsourcing has profoundly changed the structure of the American economy over just the past three or four years. After all, outsourcing was in full swing--both in manufacturing and in services--throughout the job-creating 1990s. Government statisticians reckon that outsourced jobs are responsible for well under 1% of those signed up as unemployed. And the jobs lost to outsourcing pale in comparison with the number of jobs lost and created each month at home.
选项
A、the economic recession in November 2001
B、the forecasts of George Bush’s economists
C、the flow of job chances into developing countries
D、the rich natural resources in China and India
答案
C
解析
这是一道细节题。文章第一段中间部分指出:根据官方的花名册调查数据,2月份只创造了21000个就业机会,更多的人呼吁根治越来越多的美国人看成是大多数社会问题的根源,就业机会“外流”到像中国和印度这样的国家去了。这说明, C“工作机会流向发展中国家”与文章的意思符合。A明显与文章的意思不符合;B不是原因;文中没有提到D。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/GCsa777K
本试题收录于:
MBA联考(英语)题库专业硕士分类
0
MBA联考(英语)
专业硕士
相关试题推荐
在引入无风险贷款(risk-freelending)和无风险借贷(risk-freeborrowing)后,会对原来的有效边界及最优证券组合的选择产生怎样的影响?请分别结合图形加以简要分析。
Thepoorcountriesareextremely______tointernationaleconomicfluctuations.
BothinAmericaandBritainthereisaneagernessonthepartofTVexecutivestoplaydowntheimportanceofthesmallscreen,
Eachyear,hundredsofthousandsofpeoplediefromheartattack,aleadingcauseofdeath.IntheLandmarkPhysicians’HealthS
Eachyear,hundredsofthousandsofpeoplediefromheartattack,aleadingcauseofdeath.IntheLandmarkPhysicians’HealthS
Accordingtoarecentsurveyonmoneyandrelationships,36percentofpeoplearekeepingabankaccountfromtheirpartner.Wh
OlympicGamesareheldeveryfouryearsatadifferentsite,inwhichathletes(21)______differentnationscompeteagainste
Iaskedthetailortomakeasmall______tomytrousersbecausetheyweretoolong.
Hehasmadeaveryseriousmistakeinhisplanning.Hehasforgottenthattheruleisonly______totheU.S.citizen.
Theprocessofenteringtheconfinesofpoliticalandeconomicpowercanbepicturedasasysteminwhichpersonsarechosenfro
随机试题
SLE可出现系统性硬化症时可出现
下列关于不动产物权的设立、变更、转让和消灭发生效力的论述中,不正确的有()。
甲公司无进口权,委托乙公司为自己进口一批汽车配件,乙公司则N以自己的名义与国外丙公司签订了买卖合同,购进甲所需要的配件,而国外丙公司并不知道乙公司是为甲公司购买的,此合同如果出现履行障碍,可以采用以下哪些方式处理?
199×年×月×日14时7分,某发电厂与1号机组配套的锅炉发生了炉膛爆炸,造成死亡23人,重伤8人,轻伤16人;锅炉标高21m以下损坏情况自上而下趋于严重,冷灰斗向炉后侧塌倒呈开放性破口,侧墙与冷灰斗交界处撕裂水冷壁管3l根,立柱不同程度扭曲,刚性梁拉裂;
背景资料某公路隧道最大埋深约180m,设计净高5.0m,净宽14.0m,隧道长940m。隧道区域内主要为微风化黑云母和长花岗岩,设计阶段对围岩定级为Ⅱ一Ⅲ级,施工过程中,围岩发生了变化,需要重新评定。隧道区域内地表水系较发育,区域内以基岩裂隙水为主,浅部
某生产企业2008年实现销售(营业)收入500万元,实际发生广告费和业务宣传费支出120万元,则该企业2008年计算应纳税所得额时可以税前扣除的广告费和业务宣传费为()万元。
下列行为中,可以构成附条件民事法律行为的是()(2009年基础课单选第35题)
一个字长为6位的无符号二进制数能表示的十进制数值范围是
拥有计算机并以拨号方式接入Internet网的用户需要使用()。
PASSAGETWOAccordingtoTomSeluzicki,forwhatpurposearesomefoodpricesincreased?
最新回复
(
0
)