Word: censuses
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PUBLIC PAYROLLS are still climbing, despite all efforts to cut down on federal, state and local employees, says the Census Bureau. For October 1955, the last month for which figures are available, the total public payroll hit an alltime record 7,432,000 civilians, up 200,0000 from October 1954. Salaries: $2.3 billion per month...
...Democrats and liberal Republicans, there are other areas in which liberals should not say "Me Too," but should go beyond the President's recommendations. In his housing proposal, the President has asked for a meagre 35,000 federal units for each of the next two years, while the 1950 census classified 15,000,000 homes "substandard." In school construction, too, the President's recognition of the need for increased federal aid is encouraging, but the amount he reportedly will request falls short of the minimum necessary to attack one of the nation's most serious problems...
While arguments about agricultural polity were being assembled and polished for the coming battle on Capitol Hill, the Bureau of the Census last week came forward with some hard facts about U.S. farms and farmers. Reporting on its latest census of agriculture, the bureau noted some significant shifts in life on the farm between 1950 and 1954. Items...
LIFE INSURANCE CENSUS, first in industry history, has been completed by the University of Michigan Survey Research Center. Findings: 115 million Americans (seven out of ten) own life insurance...
Recently released state census figures put the city's population at 98,000 a drop of 12,000 from 1950 and 22,000 from...