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
In recent weeks media outlets in the U.S. have been fretting over what would ordinarily be considered good news—the roaring Amer
In recent weeks media outlets in the U.S. have been fretting over what would ordinarily be considered good news—the roaring Amer
admin
2021-02-21
55
问题
In recent weeks media outlets in the U.S. have been fretting over what would ordinarily be considered good news—the roaring American economy, which has brought low unemployment and, in some places, a labour shortage. Owners and managers have complained about their problems in finding people to fill low-wage positions. "Nobody wants to do manual labour any more," as one trade association grandee told The Baltimore Sun, and so the manual labour simply goes undone.
Company bosses talk about the things they have done to fix the situation: the ads they’ve published; the guest-worker visas for which they’ve applied; how they are going into schools to encourage kids to learn construction skills or to drive trucks. But nothing seems to work. Blame for the labour shortage is sprayed all over the US map: opioids are said to be the problem. And welfare, and inadequate parking spaces, and a falling birthrate, and mass incarceration, and—above all—the Trump administration’s immigration policies. But no one really knows for sure.
The textbook solution to the labour shortage problem—paying workers more—rarely merits more than a line or two, if it’s mentioned at all. So unwilling are business leaders to talk about or consider this obvious answer that Neel Kashkari, the president of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank, scolded them last year: "If you’re not raising wages, then it just sounds like whining."
If you study the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ numbers on wages for nonsupervisory workers over the past few decades, you will notice that wage growth has been strangely slow to pick up. Hot economies usually drive wages up pretty promptly; this recovery has been running since 2009 and it has barely moved the needle.
How could such a thing happen in this modem and enlightened age? Well, for starters, think of all that whining we’re hearing from the US’s management, who will apparently blame anyone and do anything to avoid paying workers more. Every labour-management innovation seems to have been designed with this amazing goal in mind. Every great bipartisan political initiative, from free trade to welfare reform, points the same way.
What can we learn from Paragraph 2?
选项
A、Reasons for labour shortage beyond number.
B、Bosses have done all they can do about labour shortage.
C、It is Trump administration’s immigration policies to be blame.
D、Reasons for labour shortage proposed by bosses are groundless.
答案
D
解析
事实细节题。根据定位词定位到文章第二段。第一句介绍雇主为增加劳动力所做的努力,第二句中But nothing表明努力并未取得成效,第三、四句说明雇主所认为的劳动力短缺原因,第五句中But暗示原因并没有根据,故D项为正确选项。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/GFY4777K
0
考研英语二
相关试题推荐
Hisfatherhasbeenworkinghardformanyyearstosupporthimatuniversitysohedidnotwantto______.
Allthepeople______treatmentprotestedthatthemedicalfeewastoohightobeacceptable.
Conveniencefoodhelpscompaniesbycreatinggrowth;butwhatisitseffectonpeople?Forpeoplewhothinkcookingwasthefoun
Mosthumanbeingsactuallydecidebeforetheythink.Whenanyhumanbeing—executive,specializedexpert,orpersoninthestreet
WetendtothinkofthedecadesimmediatelyfollowingWorldWarIIasatimeofprosperityandgrowth,withsoldiersreturningh
Theroleofgovernmentsinenvironmentalmanagementisdifficultbutinescapable.Sometimes,thestatetriestomanagetheresou
Theroleofgovernmentsinenvironmentalmanagementisdifficultbutinescapable.Sometimes,thestatetriestomanagetheresou
Theclean-energybusinessisturningintothenextbiginvestmentboom,inwhichrisksarelightlyignored.Untilrecently,reca
RobertaGordonneverthoughtshe’dstillbealiveatage76.Shedefinitelydidn’tthinkshe’dstillbeworking.ButeverySatur
RobertaGordonneverthoughtshe’dstillbealiveatage76.Shedefinitelydidn’tthinkshe’dstillbeworking.ButeverySatur
随机试题
土家族喜食酸辣,有“辣椒当盐”之说。()
甲乙丙三国因历史原因,冲突不断,甲国单方面暂时关闭了驻乙国使馆。艾诺是甲国派驻丙国使馆的二秘,近日被丙国宣布为不受欢迎的人。根据相关国际法规则,下列哪些选项是正确的?(2014年卷一74题)
某企业因融资需要委托某土地评估机构,对所属某宗地2008年6月30日的价格进行评估。待估宗地位于市区综合级别三级地、商业用地二级地、住宅用地三级地,宗地面积10000平方米,其中商业用地占20%,住宅用地占80%。城市基准地价的评估基准日为2007年1月1
规划环境现状调查与分析常用的方法有()。
招标人代理机构泄露应当保密的与招标投标活动有关情况和资料的,或与招标人、投标人串通损害国家利益、社会公共利益或者他人合法权益的,处()罚款。
王某开办一家影楼,主要从事照相业务,本年取得如下收入:(1)照相取得营业收入140000元,其中包括随同照相一并销售的相册、镜框的收入25000元。(2)将一处住房出租给个人居住,承租期间发生维修费600元,由承租人代垫,从租金中抵减,王某实际收取租金72
A、 B、 C、 D、 C本题的两组图形都能够一笔画成且只有一条对称轴,故本题正确答案为C。
下列情况中哪一种属于《公安机关人民警察辞退办法》第五条规定,错误比较严重,又不宜给予行政开除处分的,应当予以辞退的情形?()
某校长平易近人,对员工有求必应,因此找他请示工作、议论问题的人越来越多。但他的苦恼也纷至沓来:每天大部分时间都用来接待来访员工,没有精力考虑单位大事;来访员工的部门领导常常意见很大,因为校长对有些情况不了解,往往做出错误指示,造成麻烦甚至损失。请问该校长存
SomechildrenlivinginEuropedon’thaveany______tolearnaforeignlanguage.Theyjustcannotseewhytheyshouldlearnit.
最新回复
(
0
)