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How many really suffer as a result of labor market problems This is one of the most critical yet contentious social policy questions. In many ways, our social statistics exaggerate the degree of hardship. Unemployment does not have the same dire consequences today as it did in the 1930’s when most of the unemployed were primary breadwinners, when income and earnings were usually much closer to the margin of subsistence, and when there were no countervailing social programs for those failing in the labor market. Increasing affluence, the rise of families with more than one wage earner, the growing predominance of secondary earners among the unemployed, and improved social welfare protection have unquestionably mitigated the consequences of joblessness. Earnings and income data also overstate the dimensions of hardship. Among the millions with hourly earnings at or below the minimum wage level, the over-whelming majority are from multiple earner, relativ
A. Shortage of jobs providing adequate income.
B. Deficiencies in the training of the work force.
C. Trade relationships among producers of goods.
D. The overall causes of poverty.

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How many really suffer as a result of labor market problems This is one of the most critical yet contentious social policy questions. In many ways, our social statistics exaggerate the degree of hardship. Unemployment does not have the same dire consequences today as it did in the 1930’s when most of the unemployed were primary breadwinners, when income and earnings were usually much closer to the margin of subsistence, and when there were no countervailing social programs for those failing in the labor market. Increasing affluence, the rise of families with more than one wage earner, the growing predominance of secondary earners among the unemployed, and improved social welfare protection have unquestionably mitigated the consequences of joblessness. Earnings and income data also overstate the dimensions of hardship. Among the millions with hourly earnings at or below the minimum wage level, the over-whelming majority are from multiple earner, relativ
A. Innovative programmes using multiple approaches should be set up to reduce the level of unemployment.
B. A compromise should be found between the positions of those who view joblessness an evil greater than economic control and those who hold the opposite view.
C. New statistical indices should be developed to measure the degree to which unemployment and inadequately paid employment cause suffering.
D. Consideration should be given to the ways in which statistics can act as partial causes of the phenomena that they purport to measure.

[单项选择]According to the text, how can Cindy "see"


A. She recognizes any text as "I love you".
B. She is equipped with a camera to search for text.
C. She is instructed by an engineer standing next to her.
D. She makes contact with the shapes of the text with her stomach.

[单项选择]How many Israeli civilians were killed and how many seriously wounded


A. 6 were killed and 5 others wounded.
B. 5 were killed and 6 others wounded.
C. 3 were killed and 6 others wounded.
D. 6 were killed and 3 others wounde

[单项选择]How many workers were fired


A. About 670.
B. About 1000.
C. About 10.
D. About 80.

[单项选择]How many suspects were arrested


A. 17.
B. 7.
C. 1.
D. None.

[单项选择]How many children were wounded


A. 3.
B. 9.
C. 4.
D. 5.

[单项选择]According to this text how did critics respond to the movie


A. It was merely imitating life.
B. It was too much of politics.
C. It was merely fictious.
D. It was too much of entertainment.

[单项选择]We can learn from the text that many newly married people （）
A. find it hard to pay for what they need
B. have to learn to make their own furniture
C. take DIY course run by the government
D. seldom go to a department store to buy things