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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sideline can readily cover its short-term losses with profits from other areas of its business. The agricultural strike now in progress is a cry of frustration from small farmers being pushed out of business by corporate farms with greater financial resources. According to the U.S. Agricultural Census, from 1964 to 1974 the number of resident farmers declined from 40,000 to 29,000 in California; from 11,000 to 6,000 in New Mexico; and from 156,000 to 81,000 in Texas. Though there are still tens of thousands of small farmers, they presently control a relatively small...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: Soaking The Rich | 1/25/1978 | See Source »

...Cambridge, as in many other parts of the country, exact count of the number of Hispanics is close to impossible. In Boston, for example, the 1970 U.S. census counted 17,900 Spanish-speaking residents, but this estimate may fall far short of the actual number because of the high mobility within the Spanish community, and a lack of bilingual census takers...

Author: By Adam W. Glass, | Title: Spanish Streets | 1/5/1978 | See Source »

...linguistic minorities by the Association for Boston Community Development in 1972 yielded an estimate of 40,000 Spanish-speaking residents in Boston, probably closer to the truth. One official in the Massachusetts State House estimated there are 120,000 to 250,000 Spanish-speaking residents Massachusetts, although the U.S. Census counted only 64,000 such residents...

Author: By Adam W. Glass, | Title: Spanish Streets | 1/5/1978 | See Source »

...Census Bureau survey tied the seven-year decline in enrollment with the end of the war. Fewer men are becoming eligible for G.I. benefits and draft deferments are no longer necessary...

Author: By Corcoran H. Byrne and Anna Simons, S | Title: Colleges Lose Students | 12/16/1977 | See Source »

...Census Bureau's Long believes that the trend is longterm. He cites as evidence the fact that the slowdown in mobility is occurring in the more highly educated levels of U.S. society, the very group traditionally most prone to prowl. His point: if mobility is declining at a time when a bumper crop of baby-boom college graduates is appearing on the scene, the trend is probably a powerful one. It is a message that has already got through to many corporations. People who are willing to move wherever the company sends them, says Polaroid Vice President Joseph McLaughlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Immobile Society | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

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