奥巴马每周演讲：投资科技和基础设施来创造就业机会01
Hi everybody. In my State of the Union Address, I said that the best measure of opportunity is access to a good job. And after the worst recession of our lifetimes, our businesses have created eight and a half million new jobs in the last four years. But we need to do more to make America a magnet for good jobs for the future. And in this year of action, where Congress won’t do that, I will do whatever I can to expand opportunity for more Americans. This week, I took two actions to attract new jobs to America—jobs in American manufacturing, and jobs rebuilding America’s infrastructure. Here’s why this is important. In the 2000s alone, we lost more than 1/3 of all American manufacturing jobs.1/3, and when the housing bubble burst, workers in the construction industry were hit harder than just about anybody.
大家好。在我的国情咨文中，我说过机会的最好衡量标准就是能否使更多的人得到好工作。经历了我们一生中最严重的一次衰退后，最近四年中，我们的经济已经创造了850万个新工作。但是我们需要做更多努力使美国在未来成为吸引新工作的磁石。在这个行动年，国会不想做这方面的工作，但是我会尽己所能为更多美国人创造就业机会。这周，我采取了两项行动来为美国吸引新工作机会，一是在美国的制造业，另一是在重建基础设施的行业。 下面我讲的是这之所以重要的原因。就只在20世纪，我们失去了超过三分之一的美国制造业岗位。三分之一啊，当房地产泡沫破裂时，建筑工业工人比其他各行业的人受打击都重。