Ladies and gentlemen, I&#39m Joe Biden.女士们先生们，我是乔拜登。I&#39m filling in for President Obama, who is abroad.我代替身在国外的奥巴马总统在此演讲。I want to talk to you today about the minimum wage and the overwhelming need to raise the minimum wage.我今天想跟大家谈谈最低工资标准以及提高这一标准不可阻挡的趋势。There&#39s no reason in the world why an Am

Hi, everybody.大家好。This week, I traveled to New England, where I was joined by four governors who are working to raise the minimum wage in each of their states.本周，我到访了新英格兰地区，支持当地四位州长提高各自州内的最低工资标准。And they&#39ve also joined me in calling on Congress to raise the minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 an ho

A Country&#39s Standard of Living国家的生活标准The standard of living of any country means the average person&#39s share of the goods and services which the country produces.任何国家的生活标准意味着人均占有这个国家生产的商品和服务的价值。A country&#39s standard of living,therefore,depends first and foremost on its capacity to produce wea

我知道许多，甚至大多数的企业一直有一本厚厚的员工手册，上面写满了各式各样的规定&mdash&mdash什么时候上班、什么时候下班，你多久休一次假，对说粗话的规定，损坏布告牌怎么惩罚。规定这，规定那，什么都规定，多如牛毛，甚至连写这些规定的人都不清楚到底有多少。差不多每隔一年他们会对手册作出修改，只会增加更多的规定，却很少根据社会的变化，放弃或更新其中一项。因此，企业充斥着令人目不暇接的规定，而没有人能记住它们，包括编写规定的管理者。在这个方面，企业和政府一样糟糕。当我阅读一些古老的本地法或州法时，总会感受到这一点，这些法律在常识方面从未进行过更新。比如，南卡罗来州有部长达200年之久的古老法律