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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

美国国家公共电台 NPR 2020 Census Will Ask White People More About Their Ethnicities

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The Census Bureau is making another change to how it asks about race in the U.S. This time it's affecting Caucasians. Those who mark the box for white on the 2020 census will be asked to give more information about what that mean

School Population Growth

By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: September 11, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. About one-in-four people age three and older in the United States is a student. The g

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Mas Yamashita does not remember when he and his family left their small home in Oakland, California. But he does remember where they went: the Tanforan Assembly Center in San Bruno, California. During World War II, thousands of Japanese-Americans wer

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Schools in US Dont Get Same Funding Education spending in the United States differs from school to school. In the southern state of Mississippi, a school in Brookhaven spends $6,417 per student. Just 100 kilometers west, Natchez spends nearly $3,000

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Where Are the Best Educated Americans? 受过最好教育的美国人分布在哪儿? The best educated Americans live mainly in the northeastern United States or in California, a new study finds. Zippia.com, a career resource website, studied educat

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One-Third of U.S. Counties Have More Deaths than Births 美国有三分之一的县的死亡率超过出生率 Recently, we reported on the importance of counties in the United States. 最近我们就美国郡县的重要性进行了报道。 Today w

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By George Dwyer Washington, D.C. 27 March 2006 watch Hispanic Business report A new report from the United States Census Bureau shows that between 1997 and 2002, Hispanic-owned businesses grew nearly

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Very shortly, the decennial - meaning every-10th-year - census of the nation's population, which is mandated by the U.S. Constitution, will get underway. And there's a lot more to it than just trying to count the number of Americans. The population k

美国国家公共电台 NPR 2020 Census To Count Deployed Troops At Home Bases, Prisoners At Facilities

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The Census Bureau has announced the way that it will count active-duty military and prisoners for the 2020 census. Those policies could add to the official population and thus the power in Congress of areas that host military bas

美国国家公共电台 NPR Citizenship Question Controversy Complicating Census 2020 Work, Bureau Director Says

AILSA CHANG, HOST: The head of the U.S. Census Bureau is preparing to face a major challenge. His agency is required by law to count every person living in the U.S. in 2020. But the bureau is running into many hurdles, including a legal fight over a

美国国家公共电台 NPR Census Bureau Stops Plans For 2020 Census Advisory Committee

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: NPR has learned about a change in how the Trump administration is preparing for the upcoming 2020 census. Unlike for the national head counts in 2000 and 2010, the U.S. Census Bureau has decided not to create a committee of advis

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IN THE NEWS - Immigrants, Births Put US on Way to Population of 400 Million by 2043By Brianna Blake Broadcast: Saturday, October 21, 2006 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week, the nat

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THIS IS AMERICA - Great-Grandma Did What?! Becoming an Explorer of Family HistoryBy George Grow and produced by Caty Weaver Broadcast: Monday, September 18, 2006 VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA

每日一词【906】census：人口普查

今天我们要学的词是census。 Census, 是人口普查的意思。The U.S. Census Bureau kicked off its 2010 population count in a remote Alaskan village on Monday, 美国人口普查局星期一在阿拉斯加一个偏远的小村庄正式开始

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美国国家公共电台 NPR The Census Bureau Needs To Hire Half A Million Workers For The 2020 Count

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The partial government shutdown is over, so hundreds of thousands of federal workers are heading back to work today. But all throughout the shutdown, one government agency was actually in the midst of a massive recruiting effort.