Economists Say College Costs Hurt Economy 经济学家称上大学成本上涨对经济不利 Hello from Washington, and welcome to As It Is, a program from VOA Learning English! Im Catherine Cole. The cost of college continues to rise, making higher

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Help wanted. As of this August, there are more job openings in the U.S. than there've been at any point since the year 2000, when the Labor Department launched it's job openings and labor turnover survey. How many jobs? Almost 7 million, 140 thousand

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China Hopes Trade Deficit Will Slow Calls for Weaker Currency China hopes its first quarterly trade deficit in seven years will quiet calls for it to revalue its currency, which Western nations say is artificially low and gives Chinese companies a tr

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Economist Calls Obama Budget Commendable, Unrealistic 经济学家称奥巴马预算值得称道但不切实际 Coming in at 2,000 pages, the 2016 federal budget is a fiscal road map for President Barack Obamas remaining two years and beyond. Its aim

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As many analysts expected, the U.S. gross domestic product, or GDP - the value of goods and services produced in the United States - experienced negative growth during the third quarter of this year. The Commerce Department says economic activity con

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By Mil Arcega Washington 12 September 2007 The U.S. stock market held onto gains Tuesday (September 11th). The New York composite index rose 139 points and the Dow Jones gained 180 points, buoyed in part by a narrowing U.S. trade deficit and renewed

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By Barry Wood Washington 22 May 2008 Economists specializing in Africa say the continent's five-year run of record economic growth is threatened by sharply rising fuel and food prices. VOA's Barry Wood reports on a Capitol Hill forum Thursday sponsor

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Brazil Overtakes Britain as World's 6th Largest Economy A leading economic research group says Brazil has overtaken Britain as the world's sixth-largest economy. The London-based Center for Economics and Business Research says Britain lost out to the

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China's economic growth remained strong in the third quarter, though the pace slowed from earlier this year. The government's primary concern - inflation - edged slightly higher, suggesting the world's second-largest economy remains buoyant and has n

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Any investor optimism sparked by the new prime minister was very short lived. The Australian share market quickly turned negative after a weak lead from Wall Street and then sharp falls in China. By the close, the All Ords dropped 1.4%. The ASX 200 I

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Heat Will Hit America's Poorest Worst 退出巴黎协议?伤害的可是美国穷人 In President Trump's June 1st speech withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accord, he claimed the climate agreement was costing American workers. In a whole

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European travel companies are planning for a possible Greek exit from the eurozone. The economic and political turmoil in Greece has already hit bookings for this summer. Greek tourism officials earlier this year noted a drop in demand. Last year tou

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Chinas top planning agency is asking the countrys state-owned energy companies to increase production and import of natural gas to guarantee winter supply of heating. Economists from PetroChina say it will need more than 70 billion cubic meters of ga

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Stocks tumbled around the world on Monday as several markets registered their deepest declines in years. VOA's Barry Wood reports that $2 trillion of value was wiped out in just a single trading day. Wall Street traders, 06 Oct 2008 The steepest dec

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By Michael Bowman Washington 30 September 2009 Sidney LaFontant shops for a dishwasher with her husband and their son, at P.C. Richard Son appliance store in New York, 4 Sep 2009 A modestly upbeat reading of U.S. economic performance is adding to ho

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World markets were mixed Tuesday amid confirmation that the U.S. economy shrank in the third quarter of the year. The Bush administration says it believes fourth quarter numbers will be even worse. 世界股市星期二涨跌互现,与此同时,美

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The economic crisis has spread into many areas of the U.S. economy--banks, investment firms, insurance companies, and even the oil markets. Experts seem to agree that the trouble started with bad loans in the housing industry, and grew into a widespr

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Chinese reports say the country's vast pool of cheap labor is getting smaller, which could hurt an economy that is heavily dependent on labor-intensive manufacturing. 中国的研究显示,中国巨大的廉价劳动力资源正在萎缩。这可能对

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法国下议院批准更严格的移民法,待通过上议院 Welcome to 'Today' - an hour of world news and analysis -- Today keeps you informed and inspired. I'm Zhaoying oming up : --Xi Jinping urges Shanghai Cooperation Organization to expand

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60年友谊即将告吹,大阪和旧金山为慰安妇雕像闹掰 Welcome to 'Today' - an hour of world news and analysis -- from a different perspective. I'm Suyi Coming up: --China's industrial output maintains steady growth while policymakers

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