TESTFORENGLISHMAJORS(2014) -GRADEFOUR- TIMELIMIT:130MIN PART Ⅰ DICTATION [10MIN] Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading,whichwillbedoneatnormalspeed,listenandtrytounderstandthemeaning.Forthesecondandthird reading,thepassage...
By several key measures, the economy is stronger than it was four years ago: The jobless rate is near a 50-year low, wages are growing and the U.S. managed to sidestep a recession widely expected by many on Wall Street as the Federal Reserve moved to curb inflation by ratcheting up ...
Many survived by begging or living off the land. In the 1870s, a depression left millions jobless. The nation feared riots. Private charities started bread lines and soup kitchens, dispensing coal, clothes and even cash. But charity workers came to suspect that a number of those accepting ...
By 1932, more than 12 million Americans were jobless. Millions more were earning barely enough to live on. The country was in a great depression they had never experienced before. . Place of Our Own We are all usually very careful when we . uy something for the house. Why? Because we ...
President Biden has signed the third — and largest — Covid-19 stimulus package aimed to bring additional relief to millions of Americans and their families. The $1.9 trillionAmerican Rescue Plan Actincludes a variety of measures in addition to extending jobless benefits: another round of stimulus...
Millions of unemployed workers in 23 states will soon lose access to their weekly $300 federal jobless benefits. Under the American Rescue Plan passed in March, those benefits are due to expire on Sept. 6, but nearly half of U.S. states are ending access early. As many as 3.8 million ...
the Roman Catholics, and Nelle was an active member of the Disciples of Christ. In 1932, Jack Reagan was rewarded for his Democratic activism by being named the local director of the Works Progress Administration, a federal agency created by Roosevelt to provide work for jobless Americans. (...
Economists mainly lump the causes of inflation into two categories: demand-pull and cost-push inflation. Those terms sound wonky, but they reflect experiences that many Americans are familiar with — especially after the coronavirus pandemic.
The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, passed in March, renewed thefederalboost to jobless benefits, giving recipients the extra aid on top of the assistance received from the state. But 26 states have decided to stop the federal benefit before the official cut-off date of Sept. 6. ...
There are many reasons why the world’s millionaires and billionaires give their money way. When it comes down to it, the main reason is simple: they want to help people who’re less fortunate than they are. Advertisements I’ve given away money to charities over the years. You may have...