统计显示美国黑人更易失业

统计显示美国黑人更易失业

Medgar Evers College, whose student body is nearly 90 percent black, is filled with hard-working students fulfilling their degree requirements. But unlike their white peers, African Americans overall are statistically¹ much more likely to be unemployed², according to findings from the 2015 State of Black America report by the National Urban League.

梅格艾佛斯学院的学生几乎90%是都是黑人,这些学生都为拿到自己的学位而刻苦努力。但与白人同龄人不同的是,全国城市联盟2015年美国黑人状态报告显示据统计非洲裔美国人整体上更易失业。

Despite annual increases in high school graduation and college attendance rates, unemployment figures for blacks are as high as 20 percent in seven of the country's largest cities. The current national unemployment rate is 5.5 percent.

尽管高中毕业及大学出勤率呈现年度增长趋势,但全国7个最大城市中黑人的失业率高达20%。而目前全国失业率是5.5%。

"The recession is over, except that the recession is still raging in many urban communities."

“若非许多城市社区仍受经济衰退影响，或许它早就结束了。”

The study links education and joblessness, says Morial. He points to the 36 percent national proficiency³ gap between blacks and whites in math and reading as a major indicator⁴ of future inequality.

莫里尔表示这项研究与教育和失业挂钩。他指出作为未来不平等的主要指标的数学和阅读方面黑人和白人有着36%的国家水平差距。

“The United States must close the gaps-must close the achievement gap, must close the jobs gap-it is essential to America's economic competitiveness in the 21st Century."

“美国必须缩短这个差距，必须缩短这一成就上的差距,必须缩短工作方面的差距,因为这对美国在21世纪的经济竞争力至关重要。”

Medgar Evers College, which hosted the report's release, is taking proactive steps to make sure graduates are ready for the workplace.

举办此次报告发布的梅格艾佛斯学院正采取积极措施确保毕业生们为就业做好准备。

President Rudy Crew.“More and more we're having everything from career days to a real focus on the network, if you will, that it takes not just to enter your chosen career but to really get the job that you want,"

主席鲁迪·克鲁说道。“我们在从招聘会到真正专注于网络投入很大精力,如果你愿意,这不仅仅是你选择职业,而是真正得到你想要的工作,“

College senior Shemroy Primo interned⁵ with the Brooklyn District Attorney's office to make himself a more attractive candidate for law schools.

在布鲁克林地区检察官办公室实习的大学四年级学生塞莫利·布里默正将自己锻炼成为一名对法学院更有吸引力的候选人。

He says he was disappointed but not surprised by the study's findings.

他表示自己倍感失望,但对研究结果并不感到惊讶。

“But as a black man, it's really hard out there in the job market. I went to high school in Brooklyn, East New York, so I have a lot of friends who are really looking up to me and really proud of me because I've taken a different route, I've gone to college. I'm a senior, I'm a rising senior and I plan to go to law school."

“但是作为一个黑人,在就业市场真的很难找到工作。我曾在纽约东部布鲁克林的高中就读,所以很多朋友真的很羡慕我而且真的为我感到骄傲,因为我选择了一条截然不同的道路,那就是我进入大学。我是一名大四学生,现在是一名准毕业生,我打算去法学院。”

However, the Urban League study indicates there is still employment bias⁶.

然而城市联盟研究表明仍然存在就业偏见。

“One thing that was troubling was that even when a black person had the same academic background, the unemployment rates seems to be still higher for black Americans. People ask me why and I think it is the presence still of exclusion⁷ and discrimination in the work force to some extent," said Morial.

“令人不安的一件事是,即使黑人有着同样的学术背景,失业率似乎显示美国黑人更高。人们问我为什么,我认为在某种程度上对劳动力仍然存在排斥和歧视。”

 

Because of this, Primo says he must work twice as hard to earn a spot in the workplace.

有鉴于此布里默表示说必须加倍努力才能在工作当中赢得一席之地。

1 statistically   

ad.根据统计数据来看，从统计学的观点来看

参考例句：

• The sample of building permits is larger and therefore, statistically satisfying. 建筑许可数的样本比较大，所以统计数据更令人满意。
• The results of each test would have to be statistically independent. 每次试验的结果在统计上必须是独立的。

2 unemployed   

adj.失业的，没有工作的；未动用的，闲置的

参考例句：

• There are now over four million unemployed workers in this country.这个国家现有四百万失业人员。
• The unemployed hunger for jobs.失业者渴望得到工作。

3 proficiency   

n.精通，熟练，精练

参考例句：

• He plied his trade and gained proficiency in it.他勤习手艺，技术渐渐达到了十分娴熟的地步。
• How do you think of your proficiency in written and spoken English?你认为你的书面英语和口语熟练程度如何？

4 indicator   

n.指标；指示物，指示者；指示器

参考例句：

• Gold prices are often seen as an indicator of inflation.黃金价格常常被看作是通货膨胀的指标。
• His left-hand indicator is flashing.他左手边的转向灯正在闪亮。

5 interned   

v.拘留，关押( intern的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He was interned but,as he was in no way implicated in war crimes,was released. 他曾被拘留过，但因未曾涉嫌战争罪行而被释放了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• These soldiers were interned in a neutral country until the war was over. 这些士兵被拘留在一个中立国，直到战争结束。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

6 bias   

n.偏见，偏心，偏袒；vt.使有偏见

参考例句：

• They are accusing the teacher of political bias in his marking.他们在指控那名教师打分数有政治偏见。
• He had a bias toward the plan.他对这项计划有偏见。

7 exclusion   

n.拒绝，排除，排斥，远足，远途旅行

参考例句：

• Don't revise a few topics to the exclusion of all others.不要修改少数论题以致排除所有其他的。
• He plays golf to the exclusion of all other sports.他专打高尔夫球，其他运动一概不参加。