Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...states insist that they can no longer handle the burden. Unemployment is running at 8.4% nationwide, and new census statistics report that last year the number of Americans below the poverty line rose to 23.8 million. At the same time, inflation has added to the amount of money needed for survival. All in all, the welfare rolls have increased by some 38% and payments by 11.3% since 1968. The situation is so bad that some states are defying the Federal Government, and a few counties have voted to withhold payments to their states...
...recent years also have their defenders as a good time to be alive in. The man who argues their case most aggressively is Ben J. Wattenberg, who in his book The Real America draws his proofs from Ihe 1970 census. He cites statistics that show more than half the employed working in white-collar jobs, which are more pleasant and less demanding than the production line. Between 1950 and 1973, real income-even discounting for inflation-doubled, and from 1959 to 1969 the numbers of people officially listed as living in poverty were cut almost in half. For the first...
...Bureau of Census has just confirmed what many Americans already suspected: 1974 was not a very good year. While the median income of U.S. families rose to $12,840 in 1974-a 7% increase over the previous year-it was not enough to offset the 11% jump in prices, the bureau's new report says. Worse, another 1.3 million Americans slipped below the poverty level (e.g., $5,038 for a nonfarm family of four), though the poverty line itself was raised to reflect inflation. By the bureau's figures, the increase brought the total of officially defined poor...
...genuine fear that if he relinquished power, the nation would be racked by a renewal of the tribal hostilities that claimed more than a million lives during the fratricidal Biafran war of 1967-70. His fears were based partly on the bitter controversy generated by publication of suspect 1973 census figures. Those ranked the Moslem Hausa and Fulani tribesmen of northern Nigeria as more numerous -and therefore more politically powerful under the proposed electoral system-than the predominantly Christian Ibos of the south and the Yorubas of the west...
...unicameral Parliament a Shi'a Moslem. In addition, they agreed that Christians would prevail over Moslems in the legislative and executive branches by a ratio of 6 to 5. That seemed reasonable in 1943, when Christians formed the majority of the population. Although there has been no census in Lebanon since 1932, the Moslems are almost certainly in the majority now (because of a higher birthrate)-and they want a larger hand in the running of the country. They also want a larger share of the nation's wealth; thousands of Moslem peasants, driven from southern Lebanon...