奥巴马每周电视演讲2014年4月26日：国会要加快最低工资标准立法(中英mp3+lrc)

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[00:00.93]Hi, everybody.  In my State of the Union Address, I talked about pizza. 
[00:04.81]More specifically, I talked about a pizza chain in  Minneapolis C 
[00:08.27]Punch Pizza C whose owner, John Soranno, 
[00:11.19]made the business decision to give his employees a raise to ten  bucks an hour.
[00:16.21]A couple weeks ago, I got a letter from a small business owner 
[00:19.53]who watched that night.  
[00:20.87]Yasmin Ibrahim is an immigrant who  owns her own restaurant 
[00:25.24]C Desi Shack C and plans to open another this summer.
[00:28.77]Here’s what she wrote.  
[00:30.79]“I was moved by John Soranno’s story. 
[00:33.56]It got me thinking about my … full-time employees 
[00:36.49]and  their ability to survive on $8 an hour in New York City.” 
[00:41.73]So a few weeks ago, 
[00:42.98]Yasmin put in place a plan to lift wages for her employees at both her restaurants 
[00:48.77]to at least $10 an hour by the end of this year.
[00:52.33]But here’s the thing 
[00:54.50]C Yasmin isn’t just raising her employees’ wages because it’s the right thing to do.  
[00:58.80]She’s doing  it for the same reason John Soranno did. 
[01:01.96]It makes good business sense.
[01:04.72]Yasmin wrote, 
[01:06.10]“It will allow us to attract and retain better talent 
[01:10.11]C improving customer experience, 
[01:12.28]reducing employee  churn and training costs.  
[01:15.40]We believe doing so makes good business sense 
[01:17.99]while at the same time having a positive impact on  the community.”
[01:22.34]Yasmin's right.  
[01:23.81]That’s why, two months ago, 
[01:25.27]I issued an Executive Order requiring workers on new federal contracts 
[01:29.42]to be  paid a fair wage of at least ten dollars and ten cents an hour.
[01:34.90]But in order to make a difference for every American, 
[01:37.22]Congress needs to do something.  
[01:39.38]And America knows it.  
[01:41.70]Right now,  there’s a bill that would boost America’s minimum wage 
[01:44.21]to ten dollars and ten cents an hour.  
[01:46.69]That would lift wages for  nearly 28 million Americans across the country. 
[01:51.25]28 million.  And we’re not just talking about young people on their first job.  
[01:55.86]The average minimum wage worker is 35 years old.  
[02:00.28]They work hard, often in physically demanding jobs.
[02:04.52]And while not all of us always see eye to eye politically, 
[02:07.52]one thing we overwhelmingly agree on is that nobody who works  full-time 
[02:12.23]should ever have to live in poverty.  
[02:15.36]That’s why nearly three in four Americans support raising the minimum wage.   
[02:20.67]The problem is, Republicans in Congress don’t  support raising the minimum wage. 
[02:25.57]Some even want to get rid of it entirely.   
[02:28.82]In Oklahoma, for example, the Republican governor just signed a law prohibiting
[02:32.74]cities from establishing their own minimum  wage.
[02:36.92]That’s why this fight is so important.  
[02:39.27]That’s why people like John and Yasmin are giving their workers a raise.  
[02:43.16]That’s  why several states, counties, 
[02:45.83]and cities are going around Congress to raise their workers’ wages. 
[02:49.99]That’s why I’ll keep up  this fight.  
[02:52.30]Because we know that our economy works best when it works for all of us 
[02:56.78]C not just a fortunate few.  
[02:59.32]We believe  we do better when everyone who works hard has a chance to get ahead.  
[03:04.10]That’s what opportunity is all about.
[03:06.61]And if you agree with us, we could use your help.  
[03:09.91]Republicans have voted more than 50 times to undermine or repeal 
[03:14.70]health  care for millions of Americans. 
[03:16.10]They should vote at least once 
[03:17.84]to raise the minimum wage for millions of working families.   
[03:22.14]If a Republican in Congress represents you, 
[03:24.90]tell him or her it’s time to give the politics a rest for a while 
[03:28.79]and do  something to help working Americans.  
[03:31.79]It’s time for “ten-ten.” 
[03:33.70]It’s time to give America a raise.
[03:36.33]Thanks, and have a great weekend.

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奥巴马每周电视演讲2014年4月26日：国会要加快最低工资标准立法(中英mp3+lrc)