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Census Workers Search Camps, Shelters to Count Homeless Americans
This week, workers for the United States Census Bureau will try to count homeless Americans.
The U.S. Constitution requires that a full census, or count, of the country's population take place every 10 years. The numbers help officials to shape congressional representation and decide how to spend federal money.
Al Fontenot is the associate director of the U.S. Census Bureau. He spoke to an advisory committee last week. He said the Bureau has identified about 49,000 places across the U.S. where homeless people will be counted. The places include more than 33,000 camps, almost 10,000 shelters and 5,000 soup kitchens.
Counting the homeless is one of the hardest jobs for the U.S. Census Bureau. The effort is beginning six months later than planned because of the COVID-19 health crisis.
Fontenot said, "We are making every effort to make sure that no one is left out of the count."
A difficult job
The delay means workers will be on the job during warmer weather, when homeless people are spread out across larger areas. Also, most homeless shelters are only operating at 25 percent to 50 percent capacity because of coronavirus restrictions. Some homeless activists worry that the Census Bureau will not count the whole homeless population.
Mike Arnold leads of aid group Midnight Mission. It provides beds, meals and drug abuse treatment on Skid Row, a poor area in Los Angeles.
Arnold said, "The best time to count is when it's cold and when it's dark, the way the county's count is done. Fewer people are moving around and people are bedded down."
Beth Shinn is a professor at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee who researches homelessness. She said trying to count people living outdoors will be hard.
"People find places to be that aren't necessarily visible," Shinn said.
The homeless count is starting as the Census Bureau's effort to count people living in what is called transitory housing ends this month. About 12,500 census takers started visiting more than 60,000 RV parks, campgrounds, marinas and hotels where people often live temporarily.
All field operations for the 2020 census are set to end September 30.
For the homeless count, if someone is sleeping, a census taker will count them without getting information about their age, race, sex or ethnic identity.
Nowhere in the U.S. is the homeless crisis more visible than in Los Angeles. There, hundreds of people live in temporary shelters. A count last January by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority reported that there were more than 66,400 homeless people living in Los Angeles County. That is an increase of more than 12 percent from the year before.
The wildfires in California only add to the difficulty of getting an exact count. Californian Democrat Jimmy Gomez is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He wonders if many people in the state will be counted at all. "That is a big concern with wildfires raging across California," he said.
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重点解析

1.campground n.露营场所

On their way to the campground, they enjoyed looking at the beautiful mountains and lakes.
往露营地的一路上，他们饱览了秀丽的湖光山色EBD[5~QF7V~R0L*。

2.information n. 信息

The information was passed on to another government department.
该信息被传达给另一政府部门XyJae]ACPf#Hez,T]C。

3.crisis n.危机

Faced with crisis, people mobilized.
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4.census n.人口普查

According to the latest census, our population has increased.
根据最近的人口调查，我们的人口增加了h8[*nTuB0ta2^U。

5.The U.S. Constitution requires that a full census, or count, of the country's population take place every 10 years.

take place 发生

A total solar eclipse is due to take place some time tomorrow.
明天某个时刻会发生日全食5[yu!Qr@zbI|v)M@8US-。
Elections were postponed the day before polling was due to take place.
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6.Fewer people are moving around and people are bedded down."

bed down 铺床睡觉

I'll bed down on the sofa.
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You have my room and I'll bed down in the living room.
你用我的房间，我睡客厅40cGOx|eI^9Arubm。

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美国人口普查人员开始统计流浪人口
本周，美国人口普查局的工作人员将开始统计美国流浪人口ueKDTbT*v#1|kM1uZG。
美国宪法要求，每10年进行一次全国人口普查dDdWpmdQQo+yS9.b!a%P。这些数字可以帮助官员确定国会代表的组成以及决定如何使用联邦资金OPC)iCj;.ibDv*@。
方特诺特（Al Fontenot）是美国人口普查局的副局长1yoosW;AV9h&+&rIC。他上周向一家咨询委员会发表了讲话xUnQSn)#~kRI_R;g|p。他说，该局已经确定了全美约4.9万处无家可归者的统计地点+ZO3;A|#!EmM_|)IPcyy。这些地点包括3.3万多处难民营，近1万处避难所以及5千处施粥场所S6BLXy!TYUMDoPBYLlG6。
统计流浪人口是美国人口普查局最困难的任务之一9;E,G0b-I5NOGer。由于新冠肺炎健康危机的影响，这项工作的启动比原计划推迟了6个月=2TQNd-jOS%)f)xo*]mu。
方特诺特表示：“我们正在尽一切努力确保漏计ypJD_e.8F-。”
困难重重

普查工作推迟意味着工作人员统计人口时赶上天气变暖，流浪人口分散到了更大的区域HOTb!Nuwme。此外，由于新冠病毒限制，大多数游民收容场所只开放了25%到50%的容量B5T~_L3mMBLb。一些调查流浪人口的活动人士担心，人口普查局无法统计到所有的流浪群体Eq-L^)OsDnEl](Re3-P8。
迈克·阿诺德（Mike Arnold）领导了“午夜使命”这一援助组织v.fyl!)&+%rjY_6N。该组织在洛杉矶的贫民窟提供床位、食物和药物滥用治疗y8%_sW~1[#-F[I]。
阿诺德表示：“人口普查的最佳时间是寒冷的夜里，美国的人口普查就是这样做的XqaEg;y1oRZhWsXazI4。这时候很少有人走动，大家都定居在某处k#@aMWQDlIs,)DD6B]。”
贝斯·希恩（Beth Shinn）是田纳西州范德比尔特大学一名研究流浪人群的教授ZI^;leUwOj。她说，统计生活在户外的流浪者难度很大wDjeO&]lpc#RbS。
希恩表示：“他们都在找隐蔽的地方栖身OYMF%s5Qpp^。”
随着美国人口普查局本月结束对居住在所谓临时住所中的人们的普查，对流浪者的普查即将展开Vzjb&Xv2rh。大约有12500名人口普查员造访了6万多个房车营地、露营区、码头和旅店，这些通常是人们临时居住的地方MG6weg6p^#]qOjulJU7J。
2020年人口普查的所有现场操作都将在9月30日结束G@IsG+t*amAQr*。
对于流浪者普查工作来说，如果有人睡着，人口普查员会对他们进行统计，但无法获得关于对方年龄、种族、性别或民族身份信息I_auW3Urm6M^~SucedU。
在美国，洛杉矶流浪者的危机最为明显TN[HYc,vE^g4Yrx。那里有成百上千人居住在临时庇护所t8@QduB+4&7i1!。洛杉矶无家可归者服务组织1月份的一项统计显示，洛杉矶县有超过66400人无家可归TuPh9@fDm2UpZ2Wgu%。比前一年增长了12%以上2,sC_wp,OpZt.a.gj!wX。
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