失业与就业-经济学家永恒的话题(2/2)
概述：桑迪飓风对美国经济影响甚微，但有经济学家认为失业率的下降只是因为很多人对就业失望退出了求职队伍，也有经济学家认为该关注的数字不是失业率而是就业人数。Hints:
Chuck Vollmer
"Jobenomics"
Mark Zandi
四处"-"
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口语节目地址：http://bulo.hujiang.com/menu/11921/item/707031/http://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201212/201212140353487797442.mp3Instead of focusing on how many Americans are out of work, Chuck Vollmer, a blogger and author of the book "Jobenomics", says U.S. policy must address ways to expand the current workforce, estimated at over 100 million.
"People tend to look at the unemployment numbers. What I'm saying, let's look at the employment numbers. Let's look at this bottom group here, the 102 million. And let's grow it to 122 million."
To do that, Vollmer says U.S. policy needs to be more supportive of small businesses.
But a bigger economic threat may be looming by year's end.
At a Senate hearing Thursday, economist Mark Zandi warned that political dysfunction and the inability of Washington lawmakers to deal with coming tax hikes and budget cuts, the so-called fiscal cliff, could lead to a loss in business confidence.
"It hasn't affected hiring and layoff decisions yet, but it will if we get into next year and we get into February and we haven't nailed this down, the economy and investors will bail and the economy will begin to struggle."
On Wall Street, investors paid little attention to long-term issues and more on the better-than-expected numbers, pushing major stock indexes firmly into positive territory.博客写手兼《就业经济学》作者查克·沃尔默表示，美国政策必须确定方针用以扩大现有约1亿以上的劳动力，而不是关注多少美国人处于失业状态。
“人们倾向于关注失业率数据。要我说的话，还是看看就业率的数据。可以看到，这里的底部数据为1.02亿。那我们就让它增加到1.22亿。”
沃尔默说，想要达到这一目标的话，美国的政策需要多多支持小型企业。
但更大的经济威胁可能在年底时出现。
经济学家马克·赞迪在周四参议院听证会上警告说，政治失调以及华府立法者无力应对即将而来的增税和预算削减（即所谓的财政悬崖）会导致商业信心的流失。
“如今雇佣和解雇决定仍未受到影响，但若进入下一年，到了两月份我们仍未解决这些问题，那时经济与投资者将会脱节，经济形势又将陷入挣扎阶段。
华尔街的投资者很少关注长期债券，他们更关注将主要证券指数推向大好形势的那些佳于预期的数据。
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