【正文】 ecovery and the other difficult but important steps that we have taken over the last six months have helped put the brakes on this took unprecedented action to stem the spread of foreclosures by helping responsible homeowners stay in their homes and pay their helped revive the credit markets and open up loans for families and small we enacted a Recovery Act that put tax cuts directly into the pockets of middleclass families and small businesses。第一篇：美國(guó)總統(tǒng)奧巴馬每周電臺(tái)演講2011obm0924【美國(guó)總統(tǒng)電臺(tái)演說】20110924 Over the last few weeks, I’ve been making the case that we need to act now on the American Jobs Act, so we can put folks back to work and start building an economy that lasts into the is an essential part of this economic is an undeniable fact that countries who outeducate us today will outpete us will hire wherever the highlyskilled, highlytrained workers are today, our students are sliding against their peers around the , our kids trail too many other countries in math, science, and many as a quarter of our students aren’t even finishing high we’ve fallen to 16th in the proportion of our young people with a college degree, even though we know that sixty percent of new jobs in the ing decade will require more than a high school this means is that if we’re serious about building an economy that lasts – an economy in which hard work pays off with the opportunity for solid middle class jobs – we had better be serious about have to pick up our game and raise our a nation, we have an obligation to make sure that all children have the resources they need to learn – quality schools, good teachers, the latest textbooks and the right ’s why the jobs bill I sent to Congress would put tens of thousands of teachers back to work across the country, and modernize at least 35,000 39。s why Congress should pass that bill right money alone won’t solve our education also need need to make sure that every classroom is a place of high expectations and high ’s been our vision since taking that’s why instead of just pouring money into a system that’s not working, we launched a petition called Race to the all fifty states, we said, “If you show us the most innovative plans to improve teacher quality and student achievement, we’ll show you the money.”For less than one percent of what we spend on education each year, Race to the Top has led states across the country to raise their standards for teaching and standards were developed, not by Washington, but by Republican and Democratic governors throughout the since then, we have seen what’s possible when reform isn’t just a topdownmandate, but the work of local teachers and principals。extended unemployment insurance and health insurance for folks who have lost jobs。and made investments that are putting people back to work rebuilding and renovating roads, bridges, schools, and , I realize that none of this is much fort for Americans who are still out of work or struggling to make ends when we receive our monthly job report next week, it is likely to show that we are continuing to lose far too many jobs in this far as I’m concerned, we will not have a recovery as long as we keep losing I won’t rest until every American who wants a job can find history shows that you need to have economic growth before you have job the report yesterday on our economy is an important sign that we’re headed in the right investment, which had been plummeting in the past few months, is showing signs of means that eventually, businesses will start growing and hiring that’s when it will really feel like a recovery to the American won’t happen I’ve said before, it will take many more months to fully dig ourselves out of a recession – a recession that we’ve now learned was even deeper than anyone I’ll continue to work every day, and take every step necessary, to make sure that also want t