The Economy Was Top News Story of 2009
The yearly AP top ten list includes President Obama’s inauguration and health care reform. Transcript of radio broadcast:
01 January 2010
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.
At the end of each year, editors and news directors of the Associated Press in the United States vote for the top ten news stories of the year.
They named the American economy as the top news story of two thousand nine. The government approved more than seven hundred eighty billion dollars to help the struggling economy. Yet the unemployment rate was over ten percent. Many banks failed. And the federal deficit reached a record one point four trillion dollars.
Chief Justice John Roberts swears in Barack Obama as the 44th United States president
Last year, the top news story was the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president of the United States. This year, Mister Obama's inauguration was voted the second top story.
The battle between Republicans and Democrats over health care reform was voted the third top story of the year. Reform of the country's health care system was one of President Obama's top goals.
The American auto industry was fourth on the list. Two of the big three American automakers filed for bankruptcy after suffering sharp drops in sales.
Next on the list was the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu. The virus affected tens of millions of people worldwide. Officials said swine flu sickened about fifty million Americans and killed ten thousand.
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