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Unemployment-insurance (UI) benefits first passed in 2008 and extended severa
Unemployment-insurance (UI) benefits first passed in 2008 and extended severa
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2023-06-29
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Unemployment-insurance (UI) benefits first passed in 2008 and extended several times. America’s government has enacted such measures in every recession since 1957. The most recent extension expired on December 28th, leaving roughly 1. 3m Americans suddenly cut off and setting the stage for a huge political battle early in 2014.
Republicans principally object to the extension’s cost—around $25 billion over the next two years. Some point out that supplemental UI benefits have been in place longer and paid out more than in past recessions. Of course, one reason for this is that a far larger share of Americans remains out of work now than when the recession began. In November 2013 America’s unemployment rate was 7. 0% , still a full two points higher than its 5% level when the recession began in December 2007. There remain roughly three applicants for every open job. Even so, Rand Paul, a Republican senator from Kentucky, says that extending UI benefits causes workers "to become part of this perpetual unemployed group in our economy" and "actually does a disservice to the people you’re trying to help." Not extending benefits will probably cause the unemployment rate to drop.
Unlike some other economic stimuli, these benefits tend to get spent quickly on consumer goods. Mr. Obama has proposed several policies aimed at helping the long-term unemployed. One would set up a National Infrastructure Bank and spend $ 40 billion on deferred-maintenance repairs. Another, the Community College to Career Fund Act, would award grants to educational institutions and state and local governments for better job-training programmes. Congress has not approved them. In 2010 it passed a payroll-tax exemption for employers who hire the unemployed; this has since expired.
Yet there is not much hope for improvement in America’s polarized atmosphere. Instead, Congress will begin the new year by once again debating UI benefits. House Democrats have introduced legislation to extend benefits for three months, paid for by trimming farm subsidies. [br] Why did some people say that America’s government needed to pay more on unemployment-insurance (UI) in this year than in past years?
选项
A、There are an increasing number of unemployed workers.
B、Supplemental UI benefits have been in place longer.
C、The economic recession has continued.
D、People’s living standards improved.
答案
A
解析
该题应定位至文章第二段,题干要求回答“为什么有些人说美国政府今年需要支付比过去几年更多的失业救济金?”第二段指出其中一个原因是a far larger share of Americans remains out of work now than when the recession began,也就是说比起经济萧条之初时,目前失业的美国人更多了。因此A选项符合文意,其他几项可以排除。
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