Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Julius Shiskin, 66, Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner whose monthly barometric reading of unemployment and prices measured the economic weather; of a kidney ailment; in Washington, D.C. A career civil servant, Shiskin worked in the Census Bureau and the Office of Management and Budget before being appointed to his last post by President Nixon in 1973. Respected and apolitical, the BLS chief was reappointed by President Carter last year. Finding the consumer price index too narrowly based, Shiskin worked out new formulas to better gauge the costs of U.S. goods and services...
This would have the state census use federal standards to determine residence. Presently, the state considers legal domicile, regardless of physical presence, to be determinant of residence, while the feds consider the location where a person spends most of his or her time as the residence. So if you don't think out-of-state students should be excluded by the state census, vote...
...Director Vernon Jordan and N.A.A.C.P. Chief Benjamin Hooks, applauded, cheered and embraced. With one vote to spare, the Senate last week approved, 67 to 32, a constitutional amendment that would give the District of Columbia two Senators and one or two Representatives, depending on the outcome of the 1980 census. Already passed by the House, the bill now heads to the states for ratification...
...Russian population makes up slightly less than half of the Soviet Union, according to 1970 census statistics. Keenan said the "Roots phenomenon" may gain a greater hold in the 1980s...
...workers would steadily fall further behind that of whites because the blacks would be trapped in dead-end jobs. But as a U.C.L.A. professor, he suspected that social change had outmoded his pessimism, arid he joined with James P. Smith, a Rand Corp. economist in a new study of census data. Last week they released their conclusions: between 1955 and 1975, black male workers increased their pay from 63.5% to 76.9% of the white average-and for women the black-white gap just about disappeared. In 1955 black female workers earned only 57% as much as white women...