01 来自世界各地的雇员在美国的工作状况.docVIP

01 来自世界各地的雇员在美国的工作状况 TIA-Foreign Workers in the US DATE=2-12-01 TITLE=THIS IS AMERICA #1051- Foreign Workers in the US BYLINE=Yenni Djahidin Grow VOICE ONE: Many people from around the world are (1)seeking jobs in the United States. There are several ways of finding a job here. Im Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And Im Shirley Griffith. How new (2)immigrants find a job is our report today on the VOA Special English program THIS IS AMERICA. ((THEME)) VOICE ONE: The United States is an (3)industrial country with a low percentage of people who do not have jobs. The (4)unemployment rate is about four percent. Many American (5)companies have problems finding skilled workers. Computer (6)software companies, the (7)agriculture (8)industry, hotels and other companies are seeking workers from other countries. For example, Microsoft, I-B-M and many other high (9)technology companies are seeking skilled workers from countries such as India, China, and the Philippines. The (10)Institute for the Study of (11)International (12)Migration reports there are about four-hundred-twenty-thousand high-tech foreign workers in the United States. The group says the number will rise to almost Four-Hundred-Seventy Thousand in the next ten years. VOICE TWO: The United States (13)Department of Labor is the government agency that (14)deals with employment(15) issues. It reports that there were more than fifteen-million foreign workers in the United States in Nineteen-Ninety-Nine. This is the highest number of foreign workers in seventy years. It is seventeen percent higher than in Nineteen-Ninety-Six. Immigrants represent twelve percent of all workers in the United States. However, about five-million of these workers are(16) illegal immigrants. They/(17) lack official work permits. Foreign workers have many kinds of jobs. Many have good jobs in scien