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高中英语 VOA常速听力2012年09月合辑（文本）US-Democrats-Convene-Amid-High-Unemployment素材 CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA — The Democratic National Convention officially begins Tuesday in the southern U.S. state of North Carolina. Monday was a holiday in the U.S. - Labor Day - a time to celebrate jobs and working people. But unemployment in America has remained high throughout the Obama administration, and public opinion polls show the issue is a drag on his candidacy. The day before the convention, Democrats highlighted this state, which they need to win in November, and celebrated just being Democrats. Democrats have come to town on Labor Day, as North Carolina抯 unemployment rate hovers well above the rest of the -country - a rate that remains high nationally at more than eight percent. Many here blame big corporations. They are taking companies that were here, factories that were here and moving them to Mexico. Moving them to India. Doing things like that, basically destroying those middle class jobs, said James Hoffa, Jr., the head of the largest labor union in the United States. The point people here make is that rightward leaning conservative Republicans got the country into economic trouble. President Barack, he inherits an 800,000-a-month job loss - 3.5 million job loss - gushing out of the bottom of our economy. That hemorrhaging of our economy stopped, said civil rights leader Jesse Jackson. Ive been downsized about five times in the last five years, said Reginald Purcell, a victim of the economy. He has steady work this week as a floral designer only because the convention is in town. But he adds hes still voting for President Obama. I really think we are at the cusp of the economy turning around, he said. The Republican nominee for president, Mitt Romney, and his running mate Paul Ryan blame Democrats, even harkening back to a president of 30 years ago. Paul Ryan campaigned in North Carolina Monday. Every president since the Great Depression who asked Americans to send them i