Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fewer than 10 per cent of the homes in these neighborhoods are classified in the 1960 census as "dilapidated...
...choices--in terms of "Planning" or "people" --were still difficult by most standards. The affected residential area, for example, is one of contrasts because the highway cuts across the city and does not take out one unified neighborhood. Thus, by some measures, the area shows considerable stability; the 1960 census reveals that nearly 50 percent of the population had moved into the area before 1953 and 19 percent had arrived before 1939. And the life-long residents who show up at protest meeting after protest meeting confirm the statistics. Yet, the area is not totally immobile either. The census figures...
...Power. Domestically, the Great Society is certain to figure as a major issue, and it is by no means certain to win votes for Lyndon Johnson. "There is not such massive impact in the programs-at least not that much redounding to the benefit of the Democrats," says former Census Bureau Director Richard Scammon, an astute political observer. "If there were, the Democrats would have won in 1966 without losing a seat...
Last week a new census disclosed that a majority of New York's students are now Negroes (29.3%) or Puerto Ricans (20.9%)-a situation common to many other major cities.-As it happens, the Negroes and Puerto Ricans, who see education as a way for their children to escape the ghetto, are no happier about the schools than the whites. "They put all their faith in the schools," says a consultant to the Office of Economic Opportunity, "but they know the schools are doing a lousy job on their kids and feel trapped." It is also true, of course...
...principle, it is intolerable that a candidate who loses the popular vote should be permitted, even in theory, to ascend to the presidency. The present system also institutionalizes other weaknesses and abuses: it cancels out the minority vote within each state; it ignores population shifts among the states between census years; it cripples third-party-movements; most ominously, it could throw an election into the House where vote is cast on the grand old one-vote-one-state principle...