We start this new year in the midst of an economic crisis unlike we have seen in our lifetime. We learned yesterday that in the past month alone, we lost more than half a million jobs -- a total of nearly 2.6 million in the year 2008. Another 3.4 million Americans who want and need full-time work have had to settle for part-time jobs. And families across America are feeling the pinch as they watch debts mount, bills pile up, and savings disappear. 在这个新年伊始，我们正处在我们有生以来从未见过的经济危机之中。我们昨天得知，仅在过去一个月里，我们就失去了五十多万个就业岗位——2008年全年共计近260万个。另有340万希望并需要全职工作的美国人不得不接受兼职工作。全美各地的家庭正切身感受到压力，他们眼看着债务增加、账单堆积、积蓄消失。
These numbers are a stark reminder that we simply cannot continue on our current path. If nothing is done, economists from across the spectrum tell us that this recession could linger for years and the unemployment rate could reach double digits; and they warn that our nation could lose the competitive edge that has served as a foundation for our strength and our standing in the world. 这些数字是一个严峻的提醒：我们绝不能继续沿着目前的道路走下去。各派经济学家告诉我们，如果不采取行动，这场衰退可能延续数年，失业率可能达到两位数；他们还警告，我国可能丧失作为我们力量和世界地位基石的竞争优势。
It's not too late to change course but only if we take immediate and dramatic action. Our first job is to put people back to work and get our economy working again. This is an extraordinary challenge, which is why I've taken the extraordinary step of working -- even before I take office -- with my economic team and leaders of both parties on an American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan that will call for major investments to revive our economy, create jobs, and lay a solid foundation for future growth. 现在改变方向还为时不晚，但前提是我们必须立即采取果断行动。我们的首要任务是让民众重新就业，让我们的经济重新运转起来。这是一项非凡的挑战，正因如此，我采取了非同寻常的举措——甚至在我就职之前——就与我的经济团队和两党领导人共同制定一项"美国复苏与再投资计划"，该计划将呼吁进行重大投资，以振兴我们的经济、创造就业，并为未来增长奠定坚实基础。
I asked my nominee for Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, Dr. Christina Romer, and the Vice President-Elect's Chief Economic Adviser, Dr. Jared Bernstein, to conduct a rigorous analysis of this plan and come up with projections of how many jobs it will create and what kind of jobs they will be. Today, I'm releasing a report of their findings so that the American people can see exactly what this plan will mean for their families, their communities, and our economy. 我请我所提名的经济顾问委员会主席克里斯蒂娜·罗默博士，以及当选副总统的首席经济顾问贾里德·伯恩斯坦博士，对该计划进行严谨分析，并就它将创造多少就业岗位、是何种岗位作出预测。今天，我公布了一份关于他们研究结果的报告，以便美国人民能够确切了解这项计划对他们的家庭、社区以及我们的经济意味着什么。
The report confirms that our plan will likely save or create three to four million jobs. 90 percent of these jobs will be created in the private sector. The remaining 10 percent are mainly public sector jobs we save, like the teachers, police officers, firefighters, and others who provide vital services in our communities. 报告证实，我们的计划很可能将挽救或创造300万至400万个就业岗位。其中90%的岗位将在私营部门创造。其余10%主要是我们保留的公共部门岗位，例如教师、警察、消防员以及其他在我们的社区提供关键服务的人员。
The jobs we create will be in businesses large and small across a wide range of industries. And they'll be the kind of jobs that don't just put people to work in the short term, but position our economy to lead the world in the long term. 我们创造的就业岗位将遍布各类行业的大小企业。而且这些岗位不仅能在短期内让民众就业，更能在长期内使我国经济处于世界领先地位。
We'll create nearly half a million jobs by investing in clean energy -- by committing to double the production of alternative energy in the next three years, and by modernizing more than 75% of federal buildings and improving the energy efficiency of two million American homes. These made-in-America jobs building solar panels and wind turbines, developing fuel-efficient cars and new energy technologies pay well, and they can't be outsourced. 我们将通过投资清洁能源创造近50万个就业岗位——承诺在未来三年内将替代能源产量翻一番，对75%以上的联邦建筑进行现代化改造，并提高200万户美国家庭的能效。这些"美国制造"的岗位——制造太阳能电池板和风力涡轮机、研发节能汽车和新能源技术——报酬丰厚，且无法被外包。
We'll create hundreds of thousands of jobs by improving health care -- transitioning to a nationwide system of computerized medical records that won't just save money, but save lives by preventing deadly medical errors. And we'll create hundreds of thousands more jobs in education, equipping tens of thousands of schools with 21st century classrooms, labs, and computers to help our kids compete with any worker in the world for any job. 我们将通过改善医疗保健创造数十万个就业岗位——向全国性的电子病历系统过渡，这不仅能节省资金，更能通过预防致命的医疗差错拯救生命。我们还将在教育领域再创造数十万个就业岗位，为数以万计的学校配备21世纪的教室、实验室和计算机，帮助我们的孩子与世界任何地方的任何劳动者竞争任何工作。
We'll put nearly 400,000 people to work by repairing our infrastructure -- our crumbling roads, bridges, and schools. And we'll build the new infrastructure we need to succeed in this new century, investing in science and technology, and laying down miles of new broadband lines so that businesses across our nation can compete with their counterparts around the world. 我们将通过修缮基础设施——我们破败的道路、桥梁和学校——让近40万人就业。我们还将建设本世纪取得成功所需的新基础设施，投资科学与技术，铺设数英里新的宽带线路，使我国各地的企业能够与世界各地的同行竞争。
Finally, we won't just create jobs, we'll also provide help for those who've lost theirs, and for states and families who've been hardest-hit by this recession. That means bi-partisan extensions of unemployment insurance and health care coverage; a 1,000 dollar tax cut for 95 percent of working families; and assistance to help states avoid harmful budget cuts in essential services like police, fire, education, and health care. 最后，我们不仅要创造就业，还要为那些已经失业的人，以及受这次衰退冲击最严重的各州和家庭提供帮助。这意味着跨党派延长失业保险和医疗保险覆盖；为95%的工薪家庭减税1000美元；并提供援助，帮助各州避免在警察、消防、教育和医疗保健等关键服务上做出有害的预算削减。
Now, given the magnitude of the challenges we face, none of this will come easy. Recovery won't happen overnight, and it's likely that things will get worse before they get better. 现在，鉴于我们所面临挑战的严峻程度，这一切都来之不易。复苏不会一蹴而就，而且情况很可能在好转之前还会进一步恶化。
But we have come through moments like this before. We're the nation that's faced down war, depression, and fear itself -- each time, refusing to yield; each time, refusing to accept a lesser fate. That's the spirit that has always sustained us -- that belief that our destiny is not written for us, but by us; that our success is not a matter of chance, but of our own courage and determination. 但我们此前也曾走过这样的艰难时刻。我们这个国家曾战胜战争、萧条以及恐惧本身——每一次，都拒绝屈服；每一次，都拒绝接受更黯淡的命运。正是这种精神始终支撑着我们——那种相信我们的命运不是为我们而写就、而是由我们自己书写的信念；那种相信我们的成功并非出于偶然、而是源于我们自身勇气与决心的信念。
Our resources may be finite, but our will is infinite. And I am confident that if we come together and summon that great American spirit once again, we will meet the challenges of our time and write the next great chapter in our American story. 我们的资源或许有限，但我们的意志无穷。我坚信，只要我们团结一心，再次唤起那伟大的美国精神，我们就一定能迎接我们这个时代的挑战，书写美国故事中下一个伟大的篇章。