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PM Plans To Create 100,000 Jobs

Gordon Brown has unveiled plans to create up to 100,00 new jobs in a bid to combat the recession. The PM's pledge comes in an interview for today's Observer magazine. Sky's Niall Paterson reports.

People don't want to start the New Year with the bang and Gordan Brown's big idea suddenly grabs the attention, creating new jobs at a time when many are losing theirs, all these are the begining of what looks like being one of the toughest period in modern British history.

The Prime Minister told the Observer: I want to show how we will be able to, through public investments and public works, create probably 100,000 additional jobs... schools,hospitals, environmental work and infrastructure, transport... We are not going to stand by and allow nothing to be done when people are facing difficulties. Sooner public money will be used to found public works, providing as many as 30,000 jobs, repairing schools, helping hurted construction firms . There will be farther investments in the environmental and digital industries. Mr. Brown believes the world's economy will double over the next 20 years and Britain needs to take advantage. And further measures are promised to get banks' lending once more.

Suddenly the creation of the jobs through the public works has a familiar feel to it's President Roosevelt New Deal in the 30s, was designed to lift the America out of the economic Dow Johns/but many students feel that that plan in fact prolongs the great depresion and with plenty of people who say Gorge Brown's plan will have lilttle or no effect.

Unemployment currently stands at an alarming 1.9 million, the highest has been since 1997, experts see it could get as high as 3.1 million in two years time, in those circumstances, 100,000 extra jobs which could drop in the ocean.

"I frankly think that the made-works scheme of this kind simplly don't work in the modern age, and I think Gordan Brown is simply desperate to make sure that the figure of 3 million is not reached."

That plan's goal is a cautiously ambitious one, but the New Year's resolutions are notorious difficult to stick to, you are on Sky News, Wesminister

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布朗将增加10万个就业岗位来应对经济衰退。今天的Observer杂志对首相进行了采访，在采访中布朗透漏了该计划。Sky新闻记者Niall Paterson报道。

人们不想带着这个沉重的打击迎接新年。布朗的计划引起了大家的注意。在这个许多人失业，似乎是英国现代历史上最困难的时期，布朗提出增加就业岗位。

首相告知Observer杂志：我们要向大家展示，我们有能力通过对学校，医院，交通，环境设施和基础设施进行投资来增加10万个就业岗位……我们不会袖手旁观，不会在人们面临困境的时候无动于衷。很快，我们会应用公共资金来建设公共设施，修建学校，帮助受害得公司，这会提供3万个就业岗位。在环境和数码行业也会进行进一步投资。布朗相信，接下来的二十年，实际经济总量会翻倍，英国必须利用自身的优势。还有更进一步的措施来要求银行提供贷款。

很快，公众感觉，布朗通过投资公共设施来增加就业岗位的做法类似于上世纪30年代美国总统罗斯福的做法。许多学生表示，这样的计划会使经济萧条的时间延长，更多人则认为，布朗的计划作用不大，或者说起不到任何作用。

现在，英国的失业人口高达190万，达到1997年来的最高水平。专家表示，两年内，该数字会增加到310万。在这种情况下，10万个就业岗位简直是杯水车薪。

“坦白地说，我认为这种形式的增加就业岗位的做法在现代社会里根本起不到任何作用，我认为布朗只是不顾一切地想将失业人口控制在300万以下。”

该计划的目的非常充满雄心壮志，但是大家都知道，新年决心一般是很难执行和坚持的。