不幸的是，在过去20年中，针对劳动力市场的公共开支相对于GDP的比率在美国下降了0.5个百分点，在加拿大，德国和斯堪的纳维亚半岛地区下降了超过3个百分点。
Unfortunately, in the past two decades, public spending on labor markets, relative to GDP, has declined by 0.5 percentage points in the United States, and by more than three percentage points in Canada, Germany, and Scandinavia.