Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...negotiate the demands. Negotiations broke down six days later, chiefly because of disagreement over the 20 per cent figure. The administration charged that the figure was too high and that it did not correspond to the percentage of black workers in the Boston area as indicated by the 1960 census. OBU said that the 1960 figure was out of date, and that black and third world people constituted actually more than 20 per cent of the Boston population...
Preliminary 1970 census figures, for example, indicated last week that New York City has lost more than 500,000 residents since 1960-a trend shared by a number of Eastern and Midwest cities. Immediately Mayor John Lindsay contested the figures suggesting that his domain is down to a mere 7,200,000 or so residents. "My guess," he said testily, "is that we're seriously undercounted here...
...course, something is done to slow this geometrical breeding. In the U.S., at least, there is evidence that while the nation is still far from achieving the ideal of zero population growth -the birth rate is still twice the death rate-the multiplication is declining. According to the Census Bureau, the ratio of children under five years old born to women in their fertile years was the lowest in March 1969 since the end of World War War II. The figure may indicate in part that more women are simply waiting longer to have children, but the 26% decline...
...1960s, the war against poverty in America was not won, but there were some notable victories. According to U.S. Census Bureau figures released last week, as of 1969 the number of Americans classified as poor dropped to 24.3 million, down from 39.5 million in 1959. Among both whites and nonwhites, the amount of upward traffic across the poverty line-$3,743 in annual income for a non-farm family of four, in 1969-was enormous. In 1959, 18.1% of white families were classified poor; in 1969, only 9.5%. The proportion of poor non-white families was also cut nearly...
...fast there, Sacramento. Last December, California announced its population had reached 20 million. Now it seems that some of those births were premature. Preliminary counts for the 1970 census put the figure as of April 1 at only 19,750,000. Many Californians, fed up with the problems of mushrooming growth, are far from unhappy. When Los Angeles Times Columnist Art Seidenbaum called for a "Lesser Los Angeles," with limits on the city's growth, he won an overwhelmingly favorable reception. One correspondent wrote him: "Let's hope your idea isn't ten years too late...