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01 来自世界各地的雇员在美国的工作状况
TIA-Foreign Workers in the USDATE=2-12-01 TITLE=THIS IS AMERICA #1051- Foreign Workers in the US BYLINE=Yenni Djahidin Grow
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01 来自世界各地的雇员在美国的工作状况
TIA-Foreign Workers in the US
DATE=2-12-01
TITLE=THIS IS AMERICA #1051- Foreign Workers in the US
BYLINE=Yenni Djahidin Grow
VOICE ONE:
Many people from around the world are (1)seeking jobs in the United States. There are several ways of finding a job here. I'm Steve Ember.
VOICE TWO:
And I'm Shirley Griffith. How new (2)immigrants find a job is our report today on the VOA Special English program THIS IS AMERICA.
((THEME))
VOICE ONE:
The United States is an (3)industrial country with a low percentage of people who do not have jobs. The (4)unemployment rate is about four percent. Many American (5)companies have problems finding skilled workers.
Computer (6)software companies, the (7)agriculture (8)industry, hotels and other companies are seeking workers from other countries. For example, Microsoft, I-B-M and many other high (9)technology companies are seeking skilled workers from countries such as India, China, and the Philippines.
The (10)Institute for the Study of (11)International (12)Migration reports there are about four-hundred-twenty-thousand high-tech foreign workers in the United States. The group says the number will rise to almost Four-Hundred-Seventy Thousand in the next ten years.
VOICE TWO:
The United States (13)Department of Labor is the government agency that (14)deals with employment(15) issues. It reports that there were more than fifteen-million foreign workers in the United States in Nineteen-Ninety-Nine. This is the highest number of foreign workers in seventy years. It is seventeen percent higher than in Nineteen-Ninety-Six.
Immigrants represent twelve percent of all workers in the United States. However, about five-million of these workers are(16) illegal immigrants. They/(17) lack official work permits.
Foreign workers have many kinds of jobs. Many have good jobs in science and technology. But many others have difficult jobs with low pay. These jobs include working in meat production centers and on building projects, cleaning hotel rooms and picking fruits and (18)vegetables.
VOICE ONE:
Foreigners who want to work in the United States must have a work permit. There are different kinds of work permits. People who have (19)permission to live (20)permanently in the United States are permitted to work. The United States Immigration and (21) Naturalization Service is the government agency that deals with immigrants. It reports that more than Six-hundred-Thousand people were given permission to live permanently in the United States in Nineteen-Ninety-Eight.
Citizens of other countries also can get a (22)temporary work permit. This lets them live and work in the United States as long as they have a job.
((MUSIC BRIDGE))
VOICE TWO:
The Immigration and Nationality Act permits at least one-hundred-forty-thousand immigrants to live in the United States each year based on employment. There are five groups of workers whose immigration to the United States is based on employment. Some of these require a job offer from an employer and official (23)approval by the Labor Department. |
