失业率仍处于过高的水平，大约有一半的失业者是难以找到工作的长期失业者 — — 要是我们把退出劳动力市场的美国人也算上的话（理应如此）这个比例还会更高。
Unemployment will still be far too high, and almost half of it will be hard-to-solve, long-term joblessness – and even more if we count (as we should) the millions of Americans who have dropped out of the labor force.