Let's face it: that belief has suffered some serious blows. Over more than three decades, even before the Great Recession hit, massive shifts in technology and global competition had eliminated a lot of good, middle-class jobs, and weakened the economic foundations that families depend on.
让我们面对现实:这种信念遭受了一些严重的打击。超过30年的时间里,甚至在经济大衰退之前,技术和全球竞争的巨大变化已经削减了中产阶级的许多好的工作机会,并削弱了中产家庭依赖的经济基础。
Today, after four years of economic growth, corporate profits and stock prices have rarely been higher, and those at the top have never done better. But average wages have barely budged. Inequality has deepened. Upward mobility has stalled. The cold, hard fact is that even in the midst of recovery, too many Americans are working more than ever just to get by - let alone get ahead. And too many still aren't working at all.
现在,经过4年的经济增长,企业利润和股价均开始上升,而那些身处高位的人从来没有做的更好。平均工资却几乎没有变化。社会不平等加深,向上流动几近停滞。冰冷而又无法回避的事实是,即使是在复苏之中,太多的美国人还是在勉强度日,更不用说出人头地。还有许多人仍然没有工作。
Our job is to reverse these trends. It won't happen right away, and we won't agree on everything. But what I offer tonight is a set of concrete, practical proposals to speed up growth, strengthen the middle class, and build new ladders of opportunity into the middle class. Some require congressional action, and I'm eager to work with all of you. But America does not stand still - and neither will I. So wherever and whenever I can take steps without legislation to expand opportunity for more American families, that's what I'm going to do.
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