This is because in America, the definition of a food desert is any census area where at least 20% of inhabitants are below the poverty line and 33% live more than a mile from a supermarket.

这是因为在美国，任何普查区中，只要其20%以下的居民低于贫困线，33%的居民于距离超市一英里之外居住，那么该地区即被定义为食品沙漠。

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But "poverty" in America, as defined by the Census Bureau, does not mean destitution.

但是，美国人口调查局所定义的“贫困”并非指必需品匮乏。

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Discerned from the perplexing picture of population growth the 1980 census provided, America in l970s witnessed a southwestern shift of population.

从1980年的人口普查所提供的、关于人口增长的、令人困惑的情况来看，二十世纪七十年代的美国见证了人口向西南方向的迁移。

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But,as Faith Lapidus reports, the Census Bureau says more than one million women in America were stay-at-home mothers last year.

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The Census Bureau reported that America's poverty rate had basically remained unchanged in 2005 at 12.6% of the population, marking the first time the rate has not increased since Mr Bush became president.

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Mr Li predicts that by the time the forms are collected at the end of March, some 90% of Chinese businesses will have responded to the census a rate higher, he says, than is found in America.

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Erroneous Estimate While the U.S. Census Bureau is in the midst of counting how many of us there are in America, it has estimated that the U.S. population will double by the end of this century.

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