Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assistant to the state census director said yesterday that a 15 per cent drop in the Cambridge population, shown in the 1971 state census, is due mainly to the irresponsibility of the census takers...
LAST WEEK RON SILVA, the Bureau's program administrator, showed me a list of twenty-odd programs that were "on the slate," but when I spoke to Saravelas he could name only four programs currently in operation (excluding the Bureau's two $50,000 satellite projects and an educational census conducted in conjunction with the schools and a number of other city agencies). They were a Junior Advocate program (which trains youth to do counseling work), a psychology program, an alcoholism program in conjunction with the hospital, and the cosmetics program...
...ally in the U.S. Government. Peter Henle, a Library of Congress labor specialist, has found in a new study that the share of wage and salary income going to people who are already well paid is gradually increasing, while the share paid to low-ranking workers is falling. Using Census Bureau figures, he estimates that between 1958 and 1970 the share of all job income that went to the top fifth of male wage earners rose from 38% to 40½%. At the same time, the bottom fifth's share dropped from...
Henle's study is the latest in a series of surprising findings on economic inequality in the U.S. During the past year and a half, the Census Bureau, the nonprofit Cambridge Institute in Massachusetts, and M.I.T. Economists Lester Thurow and Robert Lucas have all found that since World...
Parker said the 1970 census showed the average life expectancy of the Indian to be 44 years. "My grandmother told me that not too long ago people in our tribe reached the age of 110, 120 or 130," he added...