VOA慢速英语听力 ECONOMICS REPORT（WORD文本）：0402A.doc

1、00:00.07This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. 00:05.94It has been one year since President Obama signed the economic recovery bill aimed at pulling the country out of recession. 00:16.97The new bill promised jobs - including many in the nuclear energy industry.00:24.74On Tuesday, the pre

2、sident announced plans for the government to guarantee more than eight billion dollars in loans for 00:36.03two new nuclear energy centers in the state of Georgia.00:40.14The Southern Company plans to build the nuclear power centers with the first starting operations in twenty sixteen.00:50.58Mister

3、 Obama announced the plan at a job training center in Lanham, Maryland. 00:58.31The message was that nuclear energy projects will create jobs.01:04.51BARACK OBAMA: It is a plant that will create thousands of construction jobs in the next few years, and some eight hundred permanent jobs - 01:12.62wel

4、l paying permanent jobs - in the years to come.01:15.64On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve predicted that unemployment will remain near current levels through the year. 01:25.32The present rate is nine point seven percent. The central bank said unemployment could remain high for the next two years.01:

5、37.17President Obama has received sharp criticism from Republicans over the lack of progress in job creation.01:46.87The seven hundred eighty-seven billion dollar American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is also unpopular because of its cost. 01:59.02Critics say the money is being spent too slowly wit

6、h less than sixty percent being spent so far. 02:07.70But the administration said the measure has saved or created two million jobs.02:16.37By supporting nuclear energy, the president may be seeking common ground with Republicans who have called for building 02:26.12as many as one hundred new nuclea

7、r power centers. 02:30.08Mister Obama has linked clean energy with economic growth. 02:36.33He also warned that the United States is falling behind in developing nuclear energy. 02:44.34BARACK OBAMA: There are fifty-six nuclear reactors under construction in the world: 02:49.11twenty-one in China al

8、one, six in South Korea and five in India. 02:55.62The United States has not built a new nuclear power plant in nearly thirty years. 03:02.85American public opinion about nuclear energy has been mixed. 03:08.67In recent years, public opinion studies show more than half of Americans approve of nuclear energy with greater support among men than women. 03:21.68About one-fifth of the nations electricity is generated by nuclear power.03:29.07And thats the VOA Special English Economics Report. Do you have a question about an economic issue?