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The article in Time on Dec 6th 2018, The Divorce Rate Is Dropping.That May Not Actually Be Good News mentions that divorce is on the decline to 39% and has been since the 1980s (50%)in America. But in practice, this does not mean more people are living happily ever after. The people who are getting married are increasingly staying married. But that group is an ever-smaller and more privileged group of individuals.Marriage is becoming one of the many institutions from which the poor, and less-educated are excluded.

最新一期的美國《時代》周刊中題為《美國離婚率下降——未必是好消息》的文章提到，美國的離婚率從上世紀(jì)80年代的50%一直下降到現(xiàn)在的39%，但這并不意味著更多的人在快樂地生活著。已婚的人越來越多地選擇維持婚姻，已婚一族愈發(fā)成為了“特權(quán)階層”。如同眾多的大銀行機構(gòu)一樣，婚姻對窮人和低學(xué)歷者關(guān)閉了大門。

The article with the title saying White House officials reprimanded for violating the Hatch Act in Washingtonpost on Dec 3rd, 2018, mentioned that six White House officials violated a federal law that prohibits public employees from conducting political activity in their official roles when they used their official Twitter accounts to send or display political messages supporting President Trump. Hatch Act is aimed to make sure the government is run in a nonpartisan fashion and to protect federal employees from political coercion.

2018年12月3日的《華盛頓郵報》中一篇題為《官員違反〈哈奇法〉遭問責(zé)》的文章稱，6名白宮官員在他們各自的官方推特賬號上發(fā)送或展示了有關(guān)支持特朗普的政治信息，此舉違反了美國聯(lián)邦法關(guān)于禁止公務(wù)人員用其官方身份從事政治活動的規(guī)定。《哈奇法》旨在確保政府的運行不受黨派影響，同時保護(hù)聯(lián)邦雇員免受政治脅迫。