Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even with its 21 percent decrease, HarvardSquare still claims two places on the policedepartment's most recent list of shoplifting "hotspots." The list, which is updated quarterly,includes 16 of the city's 870 census blocks...
...Center for Creative Non-Violence, an advocacy group in Washington, claimed that there were 3 million homeless in America on any given night. He later admitted that he'd made up the figure. A 1988 Urban Institute survey offered an estimate of 600,000 homeless; but after the 1990 Census, the General Accounting Office put the number at 300,000. A 1994 study examined computer data on shelter turnover rates from 1988 to 1992 and found that between 5 million and 7 million Americans had been homeless at one time or another during those years...
...Conference of Mayors, which publishes an annual survey on hunger and homelessness in 30 cities, says demand for emergency shelter has increased every year since the survey began in 1985, including an 11% jump in 1998. The number of people counted in Boston's annual one-night homeless census rose 40% between 1988 and 1996. Minnesota's nightly shelter population quadrupled between 1985 and 1997, and in New York City the average number of people staying in shelters climbed to 7,100 a night in 1997 after hitting a low of 6,000 in 1994. Homelessness has roiled San Francisco...
...millennium is almost upon us. In fact, it's been almost upon us for so long that it will be a relief when it arrives. But there's another date in America's future that may hold far more significance. The U.S. Census Bureau predicts that by the middle of the next century, race in America will be turned upside down. In 2050 whites will be a minority, and present-day minorities will be in the majority...
...With the 2000 census fast approaching, the Clinton administration had pressed the court to permit demographic sampling and estimates to obtain a more accurate count of the population in likely Democratic areas. Past studies have shown that poorer people living in inner-city areas -- and presumed to vote Democratic -- have been harder to reach and thus often undercounted when direct methods, such as mail-in questionnaires or door-to-door inquiries, have been used. "Whatever the correctness of the legal interpretation," says Pooley, "the decision is wrong on the reality. Every responsible analyst has said there is a serious undercounting...