Word: censuses
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Generation gap, step aside for the "education gap." According to a study based on the census and released last week, the chief reason for conflict between parents and children may well be their sharply changing exposures to learning. The proportion of young adults with high school diplomas has risen from 38% in 1940 to 75% today; those with one or more years of college have increased from 13% to 31%, and college-degree holders have almost tripled, from 6% to 16%. By contrast, the fathers of nearly two-thirds of today's college students did not go beyond high...
...results of the 1970 census pour from the Government's computers, population analysts are finding an astonishing number of encouraging trends for the nation's economy. Almost everybody stands to become more prosperous in the next few years and beyond. Census Bureau officials calculate that the median income of the U.S. family, measured in dollars of constant buying power, will rise from $8,600 in 1969 to $10,900 by the beginning of 1975. Then the figure will continue upward, to $14,700 by 1985. Says the bureau's director, George Hay Brown: "We are heading into...
...number of persons below the official poverty level has fallen from 39.5 million to 25.4 million, a drop from 22% to only 12% of the population; the rate of decline has been accelerating in re cent years. Popular myth to the contrary, says Herman Miller, chief of the Census Bureau's population division, "the rich are not getting richer and the poor poorer. The money is being spread around more and more...
...ways that will benefit urban workers. Other liberals have shared that fear, but it has faded greatly as reapportionment engendered by the Supreme Court's one-man, one-vote decision has made legislatures increasingly responsive to urban and suburban needs. Further redistricting on the basis of the 1970 census should create more city and suburban seats in legislatures; that would further weaken the chance of an anti-city bias in the spending of shared federal revenues...
Alarmists claim that saving the U.S. environment requires "zero population growth," but last week the Government's chief demographer countered with a telling argument of his own. The key to pollution, said the Census Bureau's Conrad Taeuber, is "changing standards and habits," not excess people. While the U.S. population rose 13% in the 1960s, for example, national consumption of goods and services jumped 60%, thus loading the landscape with more and more beer cans, junked autos and other garbage. Even if "Z.P.G." were achieved overnight, said Taeuber, the U.S. population would not stabilize until the year...