Had he lived a little later, Horace might have found out from the U.S. Census Bureau that the death rate is usually lower in autumn than in winter and spring.

要是贺拉斯晚出生那么几年，他可以从美国人口普查局发现，秋天的人口死亡率一般低于冬、春两季。为什么呢？

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That last is a particular concern: on September 13th the Census Bureau announced that in 2010 the poverty rate was 15.1%, up from 14.2% in 2009.

最后一点让人尤为担忧——9月13日人口普查局宣布贫困率已由2009年的14.2%上升至2010年的15.1%。

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In figures released last week by the Census Bureau, the poverty rate among those 55 to 64 increased to 9.4 percent in 2009, from 8.6 percent in 2007.

据人口普查局上周发布的数据表明，55至64年龄段人口的贫困率由2007年的8.6%上升到2009年的9.4%。

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Colorado, Montana, Nebraska and Virginia had an increased unemployment rate of 0.2 percentage points in April, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, while Massachusetts' unemployment rate fell by 0.2 percentage points.

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Though the unemployment rate for people over 55 is just 5.9%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, several points lower than the overall rate of 8.1%, when older workers lose their jobs they are out of work for a long time, according to the AARP Public Policy Institute.

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August 2005 statistics in the Current Population Survey (CPS) put out by the U.S. Census Bureau indicate that the unemployment rate for U.S. Armed Forces veterans was 3.9%, with 3.4 million Gulf War-era veterans (post 1990) in the labor force whose jobless rate was 5.2%.

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