Almost half predict an outright decline in jobs in 2008.

几乎有一半人预测2008年的工作将完全陷入衰退。

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Unemployment in January jumped to a 16-year high of 7.6 percent, as 598,000 jobs were slashed from US payrolls in the worst single-month decline since December, 1974.

1月份的失业率飚升至7.6%，创下16年以来的新高，与此同时598000个工作岗位从美国的员工名单中被裁减下来，单月裁员量达到1974年12月以来最严重的程度。

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A decline in labor mobility may help explain some of the failure of workers to find jobs even after they have been unemployed for months.

在劳动移动性的减少可能对解释一些失业者找到工作有帮助，即使他们已经待业几个月。

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In fact, the decline has been remarkably consistent. This month we lost 663,000 jobs.

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"Even though we have slowed the loss of jobs,and today's report on the continued decline in unemployment claims is a hopeful sign, the economic growth that we have seen has not led to the job growth that we desperately need,"

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According to McKinsey, the past decade has witnessed a decline in jobs involving transactions and production, while 5 million jobs have been created in interactions that require collective problem-solving or skills matching.

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Other hard hit areas included several in the industrial Midwest, which saw a precipitous decline in manufacturing jobs in 2009, leading to income declines.

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Those surveys found that the economy was the top issue for GOP voters in both states -- and by a wide margin in Ohio, which has seen a sharp decline in manufacturing jobs in the past decade.

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