Obama's Weekly Address WEEKLY ADDRESS: Calling on Congress to Extend Unemployment Benefits this Holiday Season
奥巴马每周电视讲话:总体呼吁国会延长失业福利政策
Hi, everybody.
大家好。
The holiday season is a time for remembering the bonds we share, and our obligations to one another as human beings.
圣诞长假到来，我们要再次牢记共享发展成果、作为人类应该对彼此尽到责任的理念，
But right now, more than one million of our fellow Americans are poised to lose a vital economic lifeline just a few days after Christmas if Congress doesn't do something about it.
但现在如果国会不做出努力，将有100多万同胞在圣诞节后面临失去生活最低保障的困境。
Our top priority as a country should be restoring opportunity and broad-based economic growth for all Americans.
我们国家当前的头等任务就是为全国人民重新寻求就业机会，在广泛的基础上促进经济发展。
And yesterday, we learned that our businesses created about 200,000 jobs in the month of November.
昨天，统计数据表明11月份我们新增20万就业岗位。
That's more than 8 million new jobs in the last 45 months.
45个月以来，这一数字已经超过800万。
And the unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in five years.
失业率也降低到5年来的最低值。
But we need to do everything we can to help businesses create more good jobs that pay good wages even faster.
但我们还需要尽一切努力来帮助企业更快创造