It is Labor Day, of course, a time to salute the American worker. But there is new information suggesting it's tougher than ever to be in the American workforce. A big new government report found that

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24Again the anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, Go and take a census of Israel and Judah. 2So the king said to Joab and the army commanders with him, Go throughout the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beer

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Hi, everyone, has marriage gone out of style? You might think so from statistics just released by the Census Bureau. For the first time in American history, married couples are minority,making up just

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EDUCATION REPORT - Reaction Is Split as More Women, Fewer Men, Go to CollegeBy Brianna Blake Broadcast: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:00:00 UTC This is Shep O'Neal with the VOA Special English Education Report.

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Preparing Students for Changing Job Markets Chances are that todays college graduates will get jobs not directly connected to their majors. A 2014 study by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found that only 27 percent of graduates from four-year co

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On TV, in film, and in Save the Date cards tacked to fridges everywhere, we are steeped in the cultural white noise of wedding voyeurism and schadenfreude. A new study threatens to change the conversation: The number of married Americans is at a reco

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A Day Without a Woman unfolded across the USA on Wednesday with strikes and rallies as organizers called on women to skip work and not spend money to demonstrate their economic strength and political clout. 周三,一项名为世界上没有女人会

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Some good news for, and about, primates. Scientists now think there are a lot more gorillas out there than they used to think. A new Wildlife Conservation Society census

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Craig Windham. Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev says his country is now ready to consider new sanctions against Iran over that nation's nuclear program. Medvedev says he's still hoping though the tougher sanctions c

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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in Afghanistan, visiting US troops for the holidays, says the US has reached a turning point in the-decade long war. For all the sacrifice that you are doing, the reality is that it is paying off and that we are moving

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Food desert refers to an area where fresh food is either non-existent or too expensive. 食品荒漠是指没有新鲜食品或这种食品价格极贵的地区。 看了以上定义,你也许对此还是没啥概念。憋急!我们来看看对此问

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AS IT IS 2016-04-13 #EqualPayDay Brings Attention to Wage Differences 美国同工同酬日关注男女工资差异 This is Whats Trending Today Tuesday was National Equal Pay Day in the United States. The day is designed to bring attention to wage d

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AS IT IS 2016-04-05 New Study Shows Best, Worst Pay for Women 男女工资差异最大的工种 American women who work as computer programmers, chefs and dentists earn 28 percent less than men doing the same jobs. Those are the jobs with the biggest

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AS IT IS 2015-11-11 US Town Elects Muslim City Council 美国小镇穆斯林市议会选举 A Detroit suburb has made history by electing a city council where a majority of members are Muslim. The town of Hamtramck has four Muslim-Americans as city c

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Xu Jiajie has gone on countless blind dates and to numerous match-making events over the past five years in search of a husband. 在过去5年中,许佳洁(音译)为找到好一位丈夫参加了无数次相亲和婚恋活动。 At 31, the bab

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Indias sex ratio is getting worse. The trend can be reversed. 印度的性别比例扭曲越加严重,这个趋势能够逆转 THE news from Indias 2011 census is almost all heartening. Literacy is up; life expectancy is up;family size is stabilisi

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College graduates who took a detour around the weak job market by going back for advanced degrees are beginning to emerge from those programs-and finding job prospects aren't much better than they were a couple of years ago. The jobless rate for 20-

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在阅读英语材料时或是在考试过程中有很多人感到自己的阅读速度实在是跟不上需要,有些朋友就认为是自己的英语基础不行,然后就拼命的背单词,其实如果能够用正确的方法进行快速阅读

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The number of Chinas single men could exceed the entire population of Australia in five years' time, a Fujian government statistician has calculated. 一名福建政府统计人员估计,五年之内,中国单身男性数量将会超过整个澳大

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每年的7月11日为世界人口日(World Population Day)。1987年7月11日,地球人口达到50亿。为纪念这个特殊的日子,1990年联合国根据其开发计划署理事会第36届会议的建议,决定将每年7月11日定为世界

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