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Now, let me tell you, careers focused on lifting up our communities—— whether it's helping troubled schools or creating after-school programs or training workers for green jobs —these careers are not always obvious, but today they are necessary, solutions to our nation's most challenging social problems are not going to come from Washington alone. Real innovation often starts with individuals who apply themselves to solve a problem right in their own community. That's where the best ideas came from.
現在，讓我來告訴你們，那些旨在提高我們社區生活水平的職業——無論是幫助改善陷入困境的學校，還是建立課外項目，還是培訓工人從事綠色工作——這些職位常常并不顯眼，但是今天我們確實需要這些職業。解決我們國家所面臨的最具挑戰性的社會問題的方法并不一定單單來自于華盛頓。真正的革新經常始于那些致力于解決他們自己社區問題的個人。最好的主意來自他們。
And some pretty incredible social innovations have been launched by young people all across this world.
一些很有創意的社會革新已經由世界各地的青年人發動起來了。
Teach for American in this country is a great example. It was created by Wendy Kopp as a part of her undergraduate senior thesis in 1989. And now, as a result of her work then, more than 6,200 corps members are teaching in our country's neediest communities, reaching approximately 400,000 students.
“為美國而教書”就是很棒的一個例子。該口號是文帝·科普1989年在其本科畢業論文里提出來的。由于她當時的努力，現在有超過6200名隊員正在我國最貧窮的社區教書，他們教授的學生數量大概有40萬名。
And then there's Van Jones, who recently joined the Obama administration, as a special adviser to the President on green jobs, Van started out as a grassroots organizer and became an advocate an d a creator of "Green collar" jobs—jobs that are not only good for the environment, but also provide good wages and career advancement for both skilled and unskilled workers; jobs similar to ones beig created right here at UC Merced as this green campus continues to grow.
還有凡·瓊斯，他最近也加入了奧巴馬政府，成了總統在綠色工作方面的特別顧問。凡開始時是一名民間組織者，后來成了“綠領”工作口號的創始者和倡導者——這種工作不但對環境有利，而且技術工人和非技術工人都會得到不錯的工資待遇及職業生涯，這種工作類似于加州大學摩賽德分校隨著綠色校園面積的擴大而創造出的工作。
