商业报道:美失业率创14年新高

Have job losses hit bottom?

America's job market is bleak¹ and some experts are saying more bad news is yet to come..

240000 jobs loss last month, that brings total job losses just this year up to 1.2 million, our unemployment rate now stands at 6.5%. Let's bring CNN Christine Romance, Christine, the highest level since 1994.

That's right. And those jobs lost so many this year, just ten months 1.2 million jobs lost and half of those coming in just past three months. So what that tells us is there is a rapid deterioration² in the economy in the labor³ market and it is quickening its pace right now in terms of the weakness that we were seeing. Job's loss pretty much across the board, you got anything related to the housing, anything related to the consumer, anything related to the finance, losing jobs. The fact that the unemployment rate now stands at 6.5% may make some economists⁴ rethink next year's target. They were talking about 7% maybe 8%, for next year, we are getting there quite quickly with these kinds of numbers every month again and again. 240000 jobs loss this month that is probably worse than people expected.

Is there an end to it, is this the bottom to it?

This isn't the bottom. And I don't think that is a controversial statement. A lot of economists think that we were seeing the beginning of what would become a new norm in the labor market and that would be hundreds of thousands of jobs lost every month. That is what a recession looks like. And this kind of number this month, tells a lot of economists that maybe we are already in that recession, we don't really ever know untill after or in it. There was a pack of the strength, goverment jobs, the goverment jobs increased. You saw health care jobs, and 7000 jobs created in mining. But economists will point out to you that when you got the goverment creating jobs, consistently creating jobs, that is not a sign of strength. A health care job, some of those are very low paid health jobs and they are replacing highly paid manufacturing jobs that were supporting middle class families. Some of those health jobs don't have health insurance, they are more like janitorial⁵ jobs, home health care jobs, doctor jobs can't be outsource, people who run the equipment in hospital can't be outsource, those are good jobs. So people who are worried looking for choices, for career choices, health care has been a consistent grower.

You know we've heard, president elect Barrack Obama on the campaign trail saying job creation, job creation, job creation. This makes that call that much more urgent, but that much more difficult as well.

It really does. I think a lot of people are looking to him to fix it, and to grow jobs. But let's remember that a president doesn't grow jobs, the president with congress put the policy in place that allow the economy to grows, so the private sector⁶, the private sector can grow jobs. what a lot of folks are telling me is this is not gonna be a case of president growing job, this is gonna be a case of the president and his team trying to mitigate⁷ what could be a very ugly situation for 2009. There are a lot of topics as well about some sort of depression air public works programme. You have, just today, Ford⁸ anouncing more lay off there. You've got hundreds of thousands of skilled manufacturing workers and construction industry workers who are out of work. And there is something coming in down the pack to replace those jobs without some sort of retrainning. There is a talk among a lot of economists that the president and his team should have some sort of big infrastructure⁹ spending programme to get people to work. The drawback as it takes a very long time to start those jobs, but now economists tell me if you have a weak job market for next year, maybe into 2010. Well you don't have to worry about the lag, because you still are gonna get those people to work.

Yeah, you have to get them employed, we leave there, Christine, thank you so much, for again the unemployment right now, 6.5%.

1 bleak   

adj.(天气)阴冷的；凄凉的；暗淡的

参考例句：

• They showed me into a bleak waiting room.他们引我来到一间阴冷的会客室。
• The company's prospects look pretty bleak.这家公司的前景异常暗淡。

2 deterioration   

n.退化；恶化；变坏

参考例句：

• Mental and physical deterioration both occur naturally with age. 随着年龄的增长，心智和体力自然衰退。
• The car's bodywork was already showing signs of deterioration. 这辆车的车身已经显示出了劣化迹象。

3 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

4 economists   

n.经济学家，经济专家( economist的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The sudden rise in share prices has confounded economists. 股价的突然上涨使经济学家大惑不解。
• Foreign bankers and economists cautiously welcomed the minister's initiative. 外国银行家和经济学家对部长的倡议反应谨慎。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 janitorial   

adj.管理的(janitor的变形)

参考例句：

• Besides attending class, you will help our janitorial staff after school. 除了正常上课以外，下课后你得帮助学校的工人做做义工。 来自电影对白
• The accommodation will be cleaned 2-3 times every week by janitorial staff. 宿舍每星期更换2~3次备品，并有清洁人员清扫宿舍环境。 来自互联网

6 sector   

n.部门，部分；防御地段，防区；扇形

参考例句：

• The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
• The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。

7 mitigate   

vt.（使）减轻，（使）缓和

参考例句：

• The government is trying to mitigate the effects of inflation.政府正试图缓和通货膨胀的影响。
• Governments should endeavour to mitigate distress.政府应努力缓解贫困问题。

8 Ford   

n.浅滩，水浅可涉处；v.涉水，涉过

参考例句：

• They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上，所以我们只能涉水过河。
• If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪，必须极度小心。

9 infrastructure   

n.下部构造，下部组织，基础结构，基础设施

参考例句：

• We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
• We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设，发展各类群众文化。