从西班牙的失业到世界经济的可能低迷的文章，当我把整篇新闻弄懂后，觉得有点被吓到，西方国/家觉得现在的经济状况逐渐转向低迷，西方许多国/家已做好准备。

里面还是有很多的连读和弱化，生词还是要先搞定，不然听一千遍还是弄不明白整个句子的意思。

 

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The number claiming unemployment benifits in Spain went up by more than 50,000 last month.

Spain's Labor Ministry says the hikes is tipycal of the month of August but, nonetheless, discouraging.

Javier Diaz-Gimenez professor of economics at the IESE Business Scholl in Madrid

"Spain has the largest unemployment rate in the euro area and one of the largest unemployment rates in the world. In facet, our employment rate currently is about twice the euro average, and about three time the unemployment rate in Germany."

Spain's unemployment rate is more than 20 percent. For those under the age of 25, it's more than 45 percent.

But economic growth doesn't on the horizon. Spain like a number of European nations, is struggling with a major public deficits.

Greece, Portugal and Ireland have already had to borrow money from their euro neighbors in order to avoid defaulting debts. It has not yet come to Spain, and it's lawmakers want to keep it that way.

On Friday, the lower house of parliament approved an amendment to the constitution that will force goverment to keep it's deficit low in the future. The legislation is now set to parliament's upper house.

The controversial move is aimed at calming investor fears over Spain's public finances.

Diaz-Gimenez says controlling sovereign bebt means hikes in taxes and cuts in public spending. Policies that do little to stimulate economic growth.

"Policymakers in Spain face this hard choice between growth and budget stability, and they are choosing budget stability because it's the lesser of the two evils."

Governments across Europe and beyond are facing a similar conundrum.
In Italy, economic experts from around the world gathered for the annual Ambrosetti Economy Forum on Friday. Worries about recession and slow growth opened the talks, with New York University economist Nouriel Roubini warning of a "significant probability" of a double-dip recession.
Speaking from the conference, Harvard University Economics Professor Martin Feldstein says the outlook in the United States and across much of Europe is grim, not to mention Spain.
"The numbers that we've seen recently for the U.S. on manufacturing, on construction, on consumers' sentiment tell me that the odds have gotten much greater, that the U.S. is going to continue to decline, and that we are going to be in a formal recession before the end of the year," Feldstein noted. "In Europe, again I don't think you can talk about a single outlook for Europe. Germany is strong, Greece is in terrible shape, Spain has 20-plus percent unemployment. So some of the countries are already in economic downturn here in Europe."
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday that nonfarm payroll employment was unchanged in August, keeping the unemployment rate at 9.1 percent. 14 million Americans are out of work.