VOA慢速英语--非洲人民对民主的需求下降

AS IT IS 2016-12-05 Africans Demand for Democracy Declines 非洲人民对民主的需求下降 A report about a new public opinion survey shows that a ten-year-long period of Africans demanding democracy has recently ended, and such demands have bee

VOA标准英语2013--Fiscal Cliff Could Have Greatest Impact on Poor, Unemployed

Fiscal Cliff Could Have Greatest Impact on Poor, Unemployed At a Los Angeles center, Catholic Charities provides food and other assistance to the poor, unemployed, and homeless. A homeless man, John Wood, is sitting with his belongs in a grocery cart

VOA标准英语2012--US Unemployed Become Jobless, Homeless, Hopeful

US Unemployed Become Jobless, Homeless, Hopeful Jobless Robbyne Sudduth became a statistic - unemployed, homeless. Laid off from Xerox in 2007, she left Michigan and came to New York looking for work. I was putting out resumes and doing what people d

VOA标准英语2011--Hundreds Hold Prayer Vigil for Unemployed on Capitol Hill

Hundreds Hold Prayer Vigil for Unemployed on Capitol Hill Thousands of jobless workers from around the country, community members, and clergy held a prayer vigil on Capitol Hill to urge Congress to extend unemployment benefits. Millions of jobless wo

VOA标准英语2010年-Unemployed US Professionals Grapple wi

President Obama signed a bill last week extending unemployment benefits to 99 weeks. The extension will affect 1.4 million unemployed Americans and help ease the longest bout of joblessness since the great Depression. Our reporter visited a career co

VOA标准英语2010年-For Unemployed New Yorkers, No Recover

Over 10 percent of New Yorkers, nearly 425,000, are unemployed and looking for work, the highest rate in the three decades that records have been kept. The city's jobless numbers are expected to stay at ten percent or above through next year. And tha

VOA标准英语2010年-Female Condoms Unpopular Among Liberia

Some AIDS workers in Liberia say the way to stem the country's HIV rate is to urge women to wear female condoms. But others argue the female condom is impractical, and broader HIV/AIDS education is needed. As a health worker at an HIV/AIDS clinic in

VOA标准英语2011--Unemployed Look to President, Congress f

Unemployed Look to President, Congress for Help Job hunters around the United States are struggling to keep up their spirits as they look for work, despite the poor economy. Many watched President Barack Obama's Thursday speech to a joint session of

VOA标准英语2011--Obama: March Jobless Numbers 'Good News'

The U.S. unemployment rate dipped in March to its lowest level in two years, and President Barack Obama hailed the good news. The Labor Department says 8.8 percent of the U.S. work force was unemployed in March. That is one-tenth of a percent lower t

VOA标准英语2010年-Unemployed Find Comic Relief in New Bo

Sometimes, the best way to deal with a bad situation is to laugh at it. That's the idea behind The Adventures of Unemployed Man, a parody of classic superhero comics, written for America's current economic meltdown. In it, writers Erich Origen and Ga

VOA常速英语2014--Obama Secures Commitments on Hiring Long-Term Unemployed 奥巴马政府出台政策雇佣长期失业人员

Obama Secures Commitments on Hiring Long-Term Unemployed 奥巴马政府出台政策雇佣长期失业人员 WHITE HOUSE President Barack Obama met with top American CEOs at the White House Friday to discuss commitments their companies have made to h

VOA常速英语2014--UN Labor Agency Says Global Recovery Not Helping Unemployed 联合国劳工机构:全球经济增长不足以创造就业

UN Labor Agency Says Global Recovery Not Helping Unemployed 联合国劳工机构:全球经济增长不足以创造就业 The global economy may be on the mend, but the International Labor Organization says the recovery has not improved the global em

VOA标准英语2014--Long Term US Unemployed Face Difficult Year 美国长期失业者新年更艰难

Long Term US Unemployed Face Difficult Year 美国长期失业者新年更艰难 Five years after the financial crisis, many indicators suggest a recovery is finally taking hold in the worlds largest economy. U.S. gross domestic product is growing at

VOA标准英语2014--Washington Week: Focus on US Unemployed 聚焦华盛顿:关注美国失业

Washington Week: Focus on US Unemployed 聚焦华盛顿:关注美国失业 The U.S. Congress gets back to work this week after a holiday break. Whether to restore jobless benefits for more than one million long-term unemployed Americans will be among

VOA常速英语2007年-Georgia's Unemployed Silent About Predicament

By Peter Fedynsky Tbilisi, Georgia 12 December 2007 During recent anti-government demonstrations in Georgia, a pro-government member of parliament expressed surprise that protesters demanded electoral reforms rather than action on a bread-and-butter

VOA标准英语2011--Hundreds of Unemployed Storm Capitol Hill to Meet with Congress

Hundreds of Unemployed Storm Capitol Hill to Meet with Congress Thousands of Occupy Congress activists have decended on Washington this week to press their agenda of jobs and a fair economy for all. The three days of protests and events was kicked of

Why Don't Snorers Wake Themselves Up?

Why Don't Snorers Wake Themselves Up? Anyone who's ever slept in the same room as a loud snorer knows how infuriating it is to have to suffer through all that noise while the offending party remains blissfully oblivious and asleep. Loud snorers can w

北京故宫养心殿启动百年来首次大修

One of the buildings at Beijing's Palace Museum, or Forbidden City, most closely associated with imperial life is to undergo a major renovation based on traditional construction techniques, the museum announced on Friday. 北京故宫博物院周五宣

Mudslides strand over 400 vehicles in Xinjiang

URUMQI, July 21 (Xinhua) -- More than 400 vehicles are stranded following rain-triggered mudslides that cut off multiple sections of a major road in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, border police said Saturday. Several stretches of

Unemployed Test Work in New Job Fields

More than 12 million Americans are out of work, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Looking for a job similar to the one that was lost can be a frustrating and futile exercise, but an employment program in the northeastern state of New Hampshi