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

 

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The Census¹ 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 bases, among other places. Here's NPR's Hansi Lo Wang.

HANSI LO WANG, BYLINE²: Counting every resident in the U.S. every decade, as the Constitution requires, can be complicated, especially when you're dealing³ with soldiers on the move from bases like Fort Campbell.

KELLI PENDLETON: It sits on the state line of Tennessee and Kentucky.

WANG: Kelli Pendleton is on the Kentucky side, where she's the president of the chamber⁴ of commerce for Christian⁵ County, home to the soldiers of the 101st Airborne.

PENDLETON: They have been at a constant rotation⁶ of deployment⁷ since 2003.

WANG: And when many of them were overseas during the last census, an estimated 10,000 of them were not counted in Christian County because the deployed⁸ troops were considered residents of the home addresses they provided when they first enlisted⁹.

PENDLETON: That trickles¹⁰ down to funding and other decisions that are made that will have an impact on our local economy.

WANG: But Pendleton says now she doesn't have to worry as much if the troops are gone again on census day 2020. That's because deployed service members will be counted as residents of the bases or ports they were temporarily assigned away from. It's a policy change that could raise the population of states with military bases and could help them gain more power in Congress when seats in the House of Representatives are divided up between the states based on their new headcounts. One way the census count is not changing in 2020 is how prisoners are tallied¹¹ up.

ALEKS KAJSTURA: This impacts redistricting, which is the building block of our democracy.

WANG: Aleks Kajstura is the legal director of the Prison Policy Initiative, which has been pushing the Census Bureau to count prisoners not as residents of their correctional facilities but as residents of where they lived before they were incarcerated¹². She says many prisoners just happen to be behind bars on census day.

KAJSTURA: You know, people aren't at any given facility for very long.

WANG: But as the Census Bureau puts it, the majority of people in prisons live and sleep most of the time at the prison. Still, some states do count prisoners at their home addresses for their local legislative¹³ districts. One of those states is Maryland, where Catherine Pugh is the mayor of Baltimore.

CATHERINE PUGH: Once they pay their debt to society, they are in need of resources, and we should make sure that those resources are provided.

WANG: The Census Bureau says after the 2020 census, they will help those states recalculate their counts so their prisoner numbers are moved back to their home communities, but not for reapportioning Congress. Hansi Lo Wang, NPR News, New York.

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1 census   

n.(官方的)人口调查，人口普查

参考例句：

• A census of population is taken every ten years.人口普查每10年进行一次。
• The census is taken one time every four years in our country.我国每四年一次人口普查。

2 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

3 dealing   

n.经商方法，待人态度

参考例句：

• This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
• His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。

4 chamber   

n.房间，寝室；会议厅；议院；会所

参考例句：

• For many,the dentist's surgery remains a torture chamber.对许多人来说，牙医的治疗室一直是间受刑室。
• The chamber was ablaze with light.会议厅里灯火辉煌。

5 Christian   

adj.基督教徒的；n.基督教徒

参考例句：

• They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
• His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。

6 rotation   

n.旋转；循环，轮流

参考例句：

• Crop rotation helps prevent soil erosion.农作物轮作有助于防止水土流失。
• The workers in this workshop do day and night shifts in weekly rotation.这个车间的工人上白班和上夜班每周轮换一次。

7 deployment   

n. 部署,展开

参考例句：

• He has inquired out the deployment of the enemy troops. 他已查出敌军的兵力部署情况。
• Quality function deployment (QFD) is a widely used customer-driven quality, design and manufacturing management tool. 质量功能展开(quality function deployment,QFD)是一个广泛应用的顾客需求驱动的设计、制造和质量管理工具。

8 deployed   

（尤指军事行动）使展开( deploy的过去式和过去分词 )； 施展； 部署； 有效地利用

参考例句：

• Tanks have been deployed all along the front line. 沿整个前线已部署了坦克。
• The artillery was deployed to bear on the fort. 火炮是对着那个碉堡部署的。

9 enlisted   

adj.应募入伍的v.（使）入伍， （使）参军( enlist的过去式和过去分词 )；获得（帮助或支持）

参考例句：

• enlisted men and women 男兵和女兵
• He enlisted with the air force to fight against the enemy. 他应募加入空军对敌作战。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

10 trickles   

n.细流( trickle的名词复数 )；稀稀疏疏缓慢来往的东西v.滴( trickle的第三人称单数 )；淌；使)慢慢走；缓慢移动

参考例句：

• Trickles of sweat rained down my head and neck. 我颈上头上的汗珠，更同盛雨似的，一颗一颗的钻出来了。 来自汉英文学 - 中国现代小说
• Water trickles through an underground grotto. 水沿着地下岩洞流淌。 来自辞典例句

11 tallied   

v.计算，清点( tally的过去式和过去分词 )；加标签（或标记）于；（使）符合；（使）吻合

参考例句：

• The girl tallied them with her eyes for a moment. 新娘用目光把这些化妆品清点了一下。 来自教父部分
• His account of the accident tallied with hers. 他对事故的陈述和她的相吻合。 来自辞典例句

12 incarcerated   

钳闭的

参考例句：

• They were incarcerated for the duration of the war. 战争期间，他们被关在狱中。 来自辞典例句
• I don't want to worry them by being incarcerated. 我不想让他们知道我被拘禁的事情。 来自电影对白

13 legislative   

n.立法机构，立法权；adj.立法的，有立法权的

参考例句：

• Congress is the legislative branch of the U.S. government.国会是美国政府的立法部门。
• Today's hearing was just the first step in the legislative process.今天的听证会只是展开立法程序的第一步。