Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Last month a group of 58 social scientists and government officials, sponsored by the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies, met to consider ways of improving the enumeration of non-white minority groups, such as Negroes, Puerto Ricans, and Mexican-Americans in the 1970 Census...
After that, they seem to age 15 years in the ten-year interval between U.S. censuses. Chief Actuary Robert J. Myers of the Social Security Administration has analyzed the 1960 census report of 10,000 self-proclaimed centenarians in the U.S. and concludes that the true number was no more than...
Anachronistic state residency requirements continue to prevent citizens abroad or families on the move from voting; worse, Congressional districts sometimes vary by 100 per cent in size, and Congress seems intent on suspending the Court-ordered redistricting until 1972 when the 1970 census will be available; worst of all, Congress refuses to allow the 800,000 residents of the District of Columbia to have local home rule or representation in the U.S. Congress to eliminate these voting inequities, but, so far, opponents have used procedural irresponsibility to block them...
...compromise bill would have frozen present districts, except where a special census was taken, until after the 1970 national census. After that, no state's largest and smallest districts could differ by more than 10 per cent. The proposed compromise plan was outrageously different from either the House or the Senate versions of the bill. The House voted for the 10 per cent requirement after the next census and imposed a 30 per cent limitation on district differences until then. The Senate had voted for an immediate 10 per cent limitation starting the next session of Congress...
...Dogs, horses, cattle and sheep get counted in the national census," complains Aborigine Leader Charles Dixon, "but not Aborigines." Now redemption of a sort seems close at hand. By a 9-to-1 majority, Australians last month voted two constitutional amendments that would 1) include the Aborigines in the next census, and 2) allow the federal government to spend public funds on Aborigine schools and housing...