By Peter Fedynsky Washington, DC 31 August 2006 watch American Census report Census data collection was partially done door-to-door New census figures indicate that average household incomes in the United States are rising. But the country's poverty

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After nearly twenty years of homeownership, Ive spent the past ten months renting an apartment. I like it. And I dont. There are pros and cons to renting a place, just as there are pros and cons to owning a home. For me, one of the biggest cons is th

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Obama Highlights Growing US Income Gap 奥巴马关注美国贫富差距加大 WASHINGTON Recent government surveys in the United States show that the income gap between the wealthiest Americans and everyone else is growing. A Congressional Budget Of

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OTTAWA, April 10 (Xinhua) -- Jim Flaherty, who stepped down as one of Canada's longest-serving finance ministers in March and who served during one of the country's most challenging economic times, died suddenly on Thursday at the age of 64. Today is

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JUDY WOODRUFF:Back in the U.S., the release of the president's budget today touched off a fresh round of debate in Washington about spending priorities. Mr. Obama called on lawmakers to support investments that would help create jobs. But Republicans

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Gaokao from foreigners' perspective 外国人眼中的高考 Allegedly the world's largest high-stakes test featuring cramming and intense exam preparation, the gaokao has been attracting foreign media attention. Curious reporters found some typical

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把一个孩子养大需要多少钱 Our children, of course, are priceless. But they do have a cost: about a quarter-million dollars。 我们的孩子当然是无价之宝。但养育他们确实是需要成本的:大约25万美元。 A

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Small and micro-sized companies in China are seeing their corporate income tax cut by half. Chinese tax authorities have announced companies with annual incomes of less than 200-thousand yuan are going to see their rates cut down to 10-percent. The t

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Three hours a day is quite enough, wrote John Maynard Keynes in his 1930 essay Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren. The essay continues to tantalise its readers today, thanks in part to a forecast that is looking magnificently right that in

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China's gender pay gap is widening, with no signs of pulling even, according to the Green Book of Population and Labor 2016, released by the Population and Labor Economics Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences on Nov. 30. 中国社会科学

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经典歌曲-成为我自己let it be me - glen campbell_bobbie gentry I bless the day i found you i want my arms around you and aslo i beg you: let it be me don't take this heaven from one if you must cling someone now and forever, let it be me each

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养大一个孩子需要多少钱?

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探讨中产阶级英语对话 中产阶级的划分标准通常有两个,一是职业,二是人均或家庭收入。从经济地位、政治地位和社会文化地位上看,他们均居于现阶段社会的中间水平这是一个貌似明晰,

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1998年城镇居民的收入和消费水平发生了很大的变化,人年均收入达到5160元,比上一年上升了3.4%. In 1998, great changes took place in the income and consumption levels of urban residents. The yearly average income amoun

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MITT ROMNEY is not the first multi-millionaire to seek the presidency, nor the richest. Ross Perot, the record-holder, spent some of his billions earned from computer data on losing bids in 1992 and 1996. Since then men who owe their or their familys

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OCCUPY WALL STREET may be long gone from lower Manhattan, but worries persist about the gap between Americas richest 1% and the rest. Talk of inequality pervades the presidential race. In his January state-of-the-union message, Barack Obama called th

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经常出差吗?不知道该怎样用 英语 来描述公务旅行?下面是一些公务旅行常用的表达法,希望助您一臂之力。 I'll be with you in a minute. I have to finish filling in my expense account. 我马上就来。我得先

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Finance and economics 财经商业 Reforming the World Bank 世界银行,亟待重整 Zen and the art of poverty reduction 禅宗思想及扶贫艺术 Calm and confusion at the world's biggest development institution 世界最大发展机构平静与

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个人所得税英语对话 个人所得税(Individual Income tax)是调整征税机关与自然人(居民、非居民人)之间在个人所得税的征纳与管理过程中所发生的社会关系的法律规范的总称。 Yang: Do you know

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Household wealth 家庭财富 The balance-sheet boom 资产负债表的繁荣 Household wealth, and debt, is forecast to swell in 2015 预计2015年家庭财富和债务将膨胀 WITH the excesses of Christmas nearly over, Britons are planning their

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