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
74
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.
The textbook solution______.
选项
A、has been proposed many times
B、is a remedy for labour shortage
C、is completely neglected by business leaders
D、has caused a bank president’s dissatisfaction
答案
B
解析
事实细节题。根据定位词定位到文章第三段。textbook solution用于形容paying workersmore这一对策,说明该对策是解决劳动力短缺问题的最佳方式,故B项为正确选项。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/LFY4777K
0
考研英语二
相关试题推荐
Nowadays,wehavetechnologythat’simprovedsothatwecanbringpeoplebacktolife.Infact,therearedrugsbeingdeveloped
Whichofthefollowingcanbethebesttitleofthispassage?Thereasonwhythebraincellsofthepersonwhobothsmokesand
JohnDeweybelievedthateducationshouldbeapreparationforlife,thatapersonlearnsbydoing,andthatteachingmust_____
Accordingtothepassage,thefactthatyoungpeopleseemtobelosinginterestinscience______.Theword"disparity"(Paragr
Mosthumanbeingsactuallydecidebeforetheythink.Whenanyhumanbeing—executive,specializedexpert,orpersoninthestreet
Homeworkhasneverbeenterriblypopularwithstudentsandevenmanyparents,butinrecentyearsithasbeenparticularlyscorn
Theroleofgovernmentsinenvironmentalmanagementisdifficultbutinescapable.Sometimes,thestatetriestomanagetheresou
Theroleofgovernmentsinenvironmentalmanagementisdifficultbutinescapable.Sometimes,thestatetriestomanagetheresou
RobertaGordonneverthoughtshe’dstillbealiveatage76.Shedefinitelydidn’tthinkshe’dstillbeworking.ButeverySatur
Globalwarminglookslikeitwillbeabiggerproblemfortheworld’sfishspeciesthanscientistsfirstthought:Anewstudysh
随机试题
树脂类中药一般不溶于()。
有权申请宣告专利权无效的主体是()
______byalltheteammembers,theyfinallygotthebigprojectfortheircompany.
甲在给乙的要约中说“如果乙在一个月内没有反对意见,那么双方的合同关系就确立”,甲发生要约1个月后,乙没有答复,根据合同法原理,应认定()
皮下脂肪层的X线表现为
男性,56岁。患慢性骨髓炎8个月,血红蛋白70g/L,白细胞、血小板正常。血清铁6.21μmol/L,铁蛋白206μg/L,骨髓增生活跃,细胞外铁(+++)。实验室检查符合该病特点的是
膀胱结石会出现
患者平素乏力,短气,食少,复感外邪。其治则()
选择前牙日寸主要要考虑什么因素.除了
已知某投资项目的原始投资额现值为100万元,净现值为25万元,该项目的现值指数为()。
最新回复
(
0
)