Nor is the global economy forgiving of an American workforce with increasingly weak literacy, math and science abilities.

全球经济也无法容忍美国劳动人口的读写、数学和科学能力越来越弱的现实。

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And that right now we can no longer afford to incarcerate, see, more than two million people, and take them not only out of workforce, but keeping them away from information of knowledge of literacy.

现在，我们已没有能力，去限制两亿人口，让他们，脱离劳动力，让他们脱离信息，知识或文化素养。

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In the West Bank, women make up less than 15 percent of the workforce, despite a female literacy rate of 90 percent-the highest in the Middle East and North Africa.

在约旦河西岸，女性在劳动力中所占比重不到15%，尽管其识字率高达90%且位列中东和北非地区首位。

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And that right now we can no longer afford to incarcerate, see, more than two million people, and take them not only out of workforce, but keeping them away from information of knowledge of literacy.

现在，我们已没有能力,去限制两亿人口，让他们，脱离劳动力，让他们脱离信息,知识或文化素养。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

They agreed that an information literacy citizenry is required to mobilize an effective civil society and create a competitive workforce.

UNESCO: OFFICE IN DHAKA