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英语课堂五分钟演讲稿范文 ladies and gentlemen, this is joe biden, im filling in for president obama, while he addresses the nato summit in wales. when the president and i took office in january of XX, this nation was in the midst of the greatest economic crisis since the great depression. our economy had plummeted1 at a rate of 8% in a single quarter-part of the fastest economic decline any time in the last half century. millions of families were falling underwater on their homes and threatened with foreclosure. the iconic american automobile2 industry was under siege. but yesterdays jobs report was another reminder3 of how far weve come. weve had 54 straight months of job creation. and thats the longest streak4 of uninterrupted job growth in the united states history. weve gone from losing 9 million jobs during the financial crisis to creating 10 million jobs. weve reduced the unemployment rate from 10% in october of XX to 6.1% today. and for the first time since the 1990s, american manufacturing is steadily5 adding jobs-over 700,000 since XX. and surveys of both american and foreign business leaders confirm that america once again is viewed as the best place in the world to build and invest. thats all good news. but an awful lot of middle class americans are still not feeling the effects of this recovery. since the year XX, gross domestic product-our gdp - has risen by 25%. and productivity in america is up by 30%. but middle class wages during that same time period have gone up by only fourteen cents. folks, its long past time to cut the middle class back into the deal, so they can benefit from the economic growth they helped create. folks, there used to be a bargain in this country supported by democrats6 and republicans, business and labor7. the bargain was simple. if an employee contributed to the growth and profitability of the company, they got to share in the profits and the benefits as well. t