Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Britain's blacks are so bitter. Though Britain's 1968 Race Relations Act has made most forms of race discrimination illegal, complaints of the color bar in employment, education and housing continue to mount. There has been a steady growth in unemployment among West Indians, and the 1971 census revealed that unemployment among young blacks (many of whom have been educated in Britain and therefore expect more than their immigrant parents) is twice that of white youths, despite the fact that West Indians are not predominantly located in areas of high unemployment...
...expanded by an unprecedented 13 million, or 52%. Youth was bound to make more of a stir on the basis of numbers alone. In the 1970s, however, this age group will increase by only some 4.3 million, while in the 1980s it will decline. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that the median age of Americans may rise from 28.0 in 1970 to as high as 35.8 in the year...
These are the inescapable conclusions from a new U.S. Census Bureau report, "The Social and Economic Status of the Black Population in the United States, 1972." Its 79 pages of tables, based on the 1970 census and a survey of 50,000 families, disclose that...
...much of America has been suffering with the economic misfires of Phases I through IV, some Government employees at least have been humming along rather nicely. The U.S. Census Bureau revealed last week that Arlington County, Va., bedroom for much of the Washington bureaucracy, enjoys the highest per capita income (at $5,446) in the nation. A full 37.6% of Arlington's wage earners are federal employees. "When there are bad times in the country, they hire more people in Washington," observes Dr. Kenneth M. Haggerty, an Arlington dentist and acting county board chairman. In terms of income...
...Census Bureau statistics refer to "Negroes and other races." Since Negroes constitute 90% of this category, Wattenberg and Scammon believe that the figures are reliable...