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
外语
Why is it said that the economy is healthy with 20 million unemployed?
Why is it said that the economy is healthy with 20 million unemployed?
admin
2019-01-14
33
问题
Why is it said that the economy is healthy with 20 million unemployed?
Interviewee: Good news and bad news.
Reporter: You know, it seems like every month, I interview someone like you on the first Friday of the month, and they say, good news, bad news.
Interviewee: That’s right. There’s a reason for that, the good news, 200,000 jobs in a month added. That’s great. The bad news, the level of pain out there has not changed. There’s still about 20 million people who are either umemployed, working part time, but would like full-time jobs, or not in the labor force, but would like to be in the labor force. That number is just stable, and it’s a lot of pain.
Reporter: The unemployment rate stayed constant, but that’s because we added 200,000 jobs, added 200,000 people to the labor force.
Interviewee: That’s right. But think of the population and think of the number of people in the population who are workng. That tells you how healthy the economy is, how good the job market is. That number plummeted in the recession, and has barely climbed back up. We’re not at pre-recession on levels.
Reporter: Indeed the so-called employment-to-population ratio has been below 60 percent for five years now, down almost one-seventh from the ratio pre-recession, to a low last seen in the Reagan recession of the early 80’s. Now, the economy is adding jobs. In fact, May marked a milestone. Five years after the end of the great recesssion, we have finally regained the nearly nine millon jobs that were lost. But Osterman, who has researched the quality of the new jobs, says they represent no progress in wages for the economy as a whole.
Interviewee: Twenty to 25 percent of all adults who are working are in poverty level jobs, jobs that if they worked full-time, full year, wouldn’t raise them above 125 percent of the poverty rate for a family of three.
Reporter: In May, for example, some of the biggest job gains were in health care. Seems promising. Yet many of those jobs are low-paying.
Interviewee: Health care is very bifurcated, polarized industry. You have got the doctors and nurses at the top. You have got the home health care aides. You have got CNAs, the certified nursing assistants, at the bottom. These bottom jobs are going to grow immensely because of the retirement of the baby boom, because of the demand for home health care. And so a growth in health services, while expected, doesn’t necessarily lead to better jobs at all.
Reporter: "Consider the entire economy", say Osterman, "and what the average job has been paying. "
Interviewee: If you look at wage growth in the economy, over the last 12 months, it’s been about 2.1 percent. That’s barely ahead, barely ahead of inflation, so people are not going ahead in terms of their earnings in this recovery.
选项
A、15% to 25% of adults are working in poverty level jobs.
B、New jobs accelerate the development of the economy greatly.
C、The quality of new jobs shows no improvement in wages.
D、75% of the new jobs are highly-paid ones.
答案
C
解析
根据录音中的“…who has researched the quality of the new jobs,says they represent noprogress in wages for the economy as a whole”可知,新的工作岗位的薪水并无任何改善。因此答案为C项。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/oF8K777K
本试题收录于:
B类竞赛(英语专业本科专科)题库大学生英语竞赛(NECCS)分类
0
B类竞赛(英语专业本科专科)
大学生英语竞赛(NECCS)
相关试题推荐
ThedinosaursprobablybecameextinctafteragiantasteroidhittheEarthabout65millionyearsago.Butwhat______ifthisast
Theword"right",inmostlanguages,isusuallyconnected______themeaningof"correct",whereasthewordsassociate______"l
OnehundredandthirteenmillionAmericanshaveatleastonebank-issuedcreditcard.Creditcardsgivetheirownersautomaticc
OnehundredandthirteenmillionAmericanshaveatleastonebank-issuedcreditcard.Creditcardsgivetheirownersautomaticc
Whatcausesmorethantwoandahalfmilliondeathseachyear?
Whatcausesmorethantwoandahalfmilliondeathseachyear?
Completethepuzzlebyfittingthefivewordsontheright-handsideofthegridintothecorrectpositions.
SummaryListentothepassage.Forquestions26~30,completethenotesusingnomorethanthreewordsforeachblank.Likeo
Whichonebelowiscorrect?
Whichonebelowiscorrect?
随机试题
A.对羟基苯甲酸酯类B.阿拉伯胶C.阿司帕坦D.胡萝卜素E.氯化钠用作改善制剂外观的着色剂是
人参、麦冬、五味子同用的方剂是()(1994年第144题)
在对一名强迫症病人的治疗中,医生鼓励病人回忆从童年起所遭受的精神创伤与挫折,帮助他重新认识,建立起现实性的健康心理,这种疗法属于
一位53岁男患者.患慢性支气管炎肺气肿多年.某口上午因用力咳嗽.突感胸痛气促,立即被送到医院急诊科。体检发现:血压100/70mmHg,呼吸120次/分,烦躁,唇、指发绀,气管明显偏左,右侧胸廓饱满,叩诊鼓音,呼吸音明显减弱。拟诊右侧气胸,未做相应处理,即
A.关节疼痛,局部灼热红肿B.肢体关节重着、酸痛,或肿胀C.关节酸痛,游走不定,屈伸不利D.关节肿痛,屈伸不利,周围结节,皮肤瘀斑E.关节疼痛较剧,痛有定处,得热痛减,遇寒痛增着痹的主要症状是
由于自制原始凭证名称、用途、内容、格式不同,因而不需要对其真实性、合法性审核。()
法人一般分为()。
科汇股份有限公司(以下简称“科汇公司”)外币业务采用即期汇率的近似汇率进行折算,假定该公司以每月月初和月末的平均市场汇率作为当月交易发生日即期汇率的近似汇率,按季核算汇兑损益。(1)科汇公司于2013年7月1日正式动工兴建一条生产线,工期预计为1年零6个
Accordingtotheconversation,whatisoneproblemwitharmexercises?
Opinionpollsarenowbeginningtoshowanunwillinggeneralagreementthat,whoeveristoblameandwhateverhappensfromnowo
最新回复
(
0
)