Word: censuses
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...least one set of statistics appears to confirm an erosion of the middle class, though hardly an upheaval. While the middle class has never officially been defined, the group could reasonably be described as those families with incomes between the Census Bureau brackets of $15,000 and $49,999. According to the census, the proportion of U.S. families in that category, after adjustment for inflation, shrank from 65.1% in 1970 to 58.2% in 1985 (see chart). The trend is far from being a completely odious phenomenon, though. The statistics show that more families departing the middle class have moved...
Other dissenters acknowledge that the size of middle-class income might have been squeezed a bit but chalk up the problem to temporary factors. Gordon Green, assistant chief of the population division at the Census Bureau, believes the flood of young baby boomers into the job market is responsible for a dip in middle-class wages. Says Green: "Since so many of the baby boomers were in entry-level jobs, they pulled down the overall average. As they get more experienced, productivity should go up and their income as well...
...researcher at the U.S. Census Bureau, Jean Moorman was besieged with calls from incredulous friends and reporters last February. A Yale-Harvard study had estimated that only 2.6% of college-educated women who were still single at 40 were likely ever to marry. Unmarried 30-year-old college graduates were not much better off: only 20% were likely to wed. Skeptical, Moorman decided to do a study of her own. Her preliminary report, released last week, has cheer for post-20s women who hope to exchange first-time vows...
Using projections from the 1980 census, Moorman estimates 66% of college- educated 30-year-old women will someday marry, as will 23% of 40-year-olds and 11% of 45-year-olds. She concedes her figures may be a bit high, but believes the Yale-Harvard numbers, which are based on a different statistical model, are too low. Says Moorman: "I just didn't think life should be that...
...rents and proprietary income in the 16 states rose a robust average 4% a year, vs. an anemic 1.4% in the other 34 states. The coastal states, where 42% of all Americans live, attracted 58% of the 8 million new jobs created since 1981. According to this month's Census Bureau figures, the Midwest has replaced the South as the area of the country with the lowest average family incomes...