US President Barack Obama has outlined a number of proposals aimed at boosting employment, including winding¹ up the $700bn (£425bn) US bank bail-out fund.

美国总统奥巴马概括出若干旨在扩大就业率的建议，包括启动7000亿美元的银行应急资金。

Mr Obama said the remaining money from the Troubled Asset Relief Program不良资产救助计划 (Tarp) could be used to facilitate lending to small businesses.

Speaking at the Brookings Institution think tank智囊团, he also called for tax cuts for small businesses.

However, there were few details on the scale or cost of the measures proposed.

The unemployment rate in the US currently stands at 10%.

The Tarp fund was set up in the last few weeks of the Bush administration as a bail-out package for US banks.

On Sunday, a Treasury² Department official said the long-term cost of the package would be at least $200bn less than previously³ estimated.

Mr Obama acknowledged that it had been unpopular.

With regards to small businesses, he proposed a one-year elimination⁴除去，消除 of capital gains tax on new investments, and adding a new tax cut to encourage small business hiring in 2010.

In the last few years, small businesses had created 65% of new job growth, he said.

'False choice'

"We avoided the depression many feared," Mr Obama said, before adding, "Our work is far from done."

He stressed that boosting jobs was the best way to tackle the massive US deficit⁵赤字，不足.

"There are those who claim we have to choose between paying down our deficits⁶ on the one hand, and investing in job creation and economic growth on the other. But this is a false choice," he said.

The president reiterated⁷反覆地说 his commitment to halve⁸对分，减半 the massive US deficit - which stood at $1.3 trillion when he took office - by the end of his first term.

Other measures put forward included more money for infrastructure⁹基础设施 projects and rebates¹⁰回扣 to consumers who made their homes more energy-efficient.