Indeed, on a relative basis, the return on a four-year degree is near its historic high. But that's largely because the prospects facing people without a college degree have been flat or falling.

的确，在相对的基础上，上四年大学的回报正在接近其历史高位，但在很大程度上，(出现这种现象的原因)是针对没有大学学历的人的预期一直是走平或下跌的。

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But the very factors that benefit people with jobs-higher productivity and sticky wages-make prospects bleaker for those without them.

但是正是使得有工作的人收益的因素——高效率和刚性工资——使得失业者的前景更加暗淡。

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But that's largely because the prospects facing people without a college degree have been flat or falling.

但那大部分是因为没有学历的人的前景黯淡。

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In short, Mr Hoffa, who now runs the second-biggest union in the land after the National Education Association (the teachers' union), is not without prospects.

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It seems as reasonable to worry about immigrants coming to the U.S. without job prospects, as it is to worry about citizens moving from Pennsylvania to New Jersey without job prospects.

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Many minority communities -- whether in big cities or rural towns -- had seen businesses and opportunities vanish for years, stores boarded up, young people hanging out on the street corners without prospects for the future.

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