Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House bill improves on the present system by requiring every state after Oct. 1, 1981 to provide welfare for two-parent families without income 65 per cent of the Census Bureau's official minimum subsistence level. That amounts to about $4650 a year for a family of four in 1979 dollars. The new rule would raise the payments to about 800,000 families in 13 states, mainly in the South and Southwest. Under present welfare rules, only single-parent families with dependent children receive aid, a system that encourages the break-up of marriages, some experts say. The House bill...
...Commerce Secretary, she won encomiums from colleagues and White House aides. The department has 30,000 employees, a budget of $3.2 billion and a heterogeneous collection of responsibilities ranging from taking the census every ten years to collecting economic statistics every month. Kreps once quipped: "The only difference between Commerce and Noah's ark is that Commerce has only one of everything...
...used to be called "living in sin." Now it is simply "living together," and the practice is so common that even the Census Bureau has spotted the change. In a report released last week, the bureau disclosed that the number of couples living together has more than doubled since...
...census showed 530,000 unmarried male-female couples living together. Even then, the figure seemed unrealistically low, since many couples may have been too embarrassed to report such arrangements. Now the bureau lists 1.1 million "illicit" couples, with the sharpest rise occurring since 1977 in the under-25 category. Reasonably enough, the demographers attributed the trend to "an increasing desire among young adults to pursue nonfamilial interests...
...census of 17,000 households containing 50,000 residents within a five-mile radius of the crippled plant. The six-week census, to be funded by the Center for Disease Control and the National Cancer Institute, will collect names and medical histories, as well as the whereabouts of household members during the accident...