降低失业率的代价
ALI VELSHI, CNN CHIEF BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT AND HOST: Let's put this in perspective. From the beginning of this recession, we started losing jobs in January of 2008. Just a few at the time. Take a look at what happened last year. About last January, February, March, a year ago we were at the bottom here. More than 700,000 jobs in each of those months lost.
Then we started to ____1____. There were some anomalies, but largely, we got to the point where we had one month of job gains. Then job losses again. Lost about 36,000 jobs in February. So, we've seen the job losses stem, but the bottom line is there are still a lot of people out of work who can't get that work.
Now, let me just show you what this means. I've created a guy named Jobless Joe. And what the president's jobs bill means for Jobless Joe.
So, the government passes this program,____2____ has $13 billion in tax cuts for people who employ new workers. So, the company then gets some of this money. They get a discount, basically, on the payroll taxes that they have to pay to employ, ____3____, Jobless Joe or Jobless Jane or whomever you want. That's how this bill ends up creating jobs.
Now, let's talk about what that means. We also looked at whether this will ____4____ companies to actually create jobs. A recent survey by American Express says that 42 percent of companies say the No. 1 reason to create a job, well, it's pretty obvious: customer ____5____. That's the reason businesses typically create jobs.
Eleven percent of companies say tax credits, like the one we saw signed into law today, will be influential. But again, that could move, depending on how big or how small the tax credit is. Five percent say it's access to loans. That companies, and particularly small businesses, have difficulty with credit.